“If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there is no hope.  If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there is a chance you may contribute to making a better world.”

                                                                - Noam Chomsky

“None so deaf as those who will not hear.  None so blind as those who will not see.” 

                                                         - Matthew Henry

None…of the aforementioned need apply if this week we seek as much to understand…as to be understood.

“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be deprived of a crutch.”

                   - James Baldwin

If you watched The Vancouver Olympics, you know this is Canadian skater Joannie Rochette, whose indomitable will and courage provided us with a fresh perspective on this week’s Point-To-Ponder.

“Often men can see farther through a tear than through a telescope.”  - Lee J. Muir