David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

24. Skill

The good walker stirs up no dust.The good speaker incurs no discussion.The good reckoner needs no arithmetic.The good keeper needs no bolts or bars.The good binder needs no rope.The wise one is a constantand good helper of friends. Rejecting nothing,she is a good preserver of things;disdaining nothing,her intelligence is all-embracing. Good people guid one another.Those…
Kean–Kilimanjaro Medium Roast

Country of Origin: TanzaniaAppellation/Region: KilimanjaroEstate/Farm: Tec.Grower: Certification: Rating & Roast Notes: Medium Roast This was a fine coffee which I had ground in the shop. Not nearly as distinct as a lot of Kean coffees, but full cupped and nice.
James Broughton

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
Do not procrastinate

1. Do not procrastinate2. Communicate3. Inform others4. Do not judge5. Open minded
Abanodoned Chair

This Chair was left on the corner by my house. Thrown away, but to precious to be placed in the trash or something. I found it so ’90’s–I felt the drive behind the yuppie who originally purchased this horrible chair. The belief that it was some how to good to simple be thrown into a…
Color matters

1. Color matters2. Experience3. Art is art4. Do not control5. Observe
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
John of Karpathos

Do all in your power not to fall, for the strong athlete should not fall. But if you do fall, get up again at once and continue the contest. Even if you fall a thousand times because of the withdrawal of God’s grace, rise up again each time, and keep on doing this until the…
39. Fear of Life and Death

We pass continually from life to death to life;and the fears of life are as manyas are the fears of death. It has been said that one who walks in Taocan go through life without any protectionand neither the rhinoceros nor the tigerbecome cause for alarm.One who walks in Tao will enter into battlewithout fearing…
Faith

1. Faith2. Be prepared3. Listen4. Don’t project5. Present tense