THE ONE YEAR ILLUSTRATIONS CLUB

An unknown author once said, "As a boy, I thought of heaven as a city with domes, spires, and beautiful streets, inhabited by angels. Kind of surreal place, not one I envisioned my self living in for eternity. By the time my little brother died, I thought of heaven much more and as before, but now… with one inhabitant, that I knew. Then another died, and then some of my acquaintances, so in time I began to think of heaven as containing several people that I knew. But it was not until one of my own little children died years later and as I healed of that pain and agony, than I began to think I had treasure in heaven myself. No longer a celestial Netherlands inhabited by Angels, but a home that housed many people I loved. Afterward my mother went, who was a devout Christian, and yet another in Heaven. By that time I had so many acquaintances in heaven, that I no more thought of Heaven as a city merely with streets of gold but as a place full of inhabitants, o...

He once killed a man in a road rage incident. Now, he has died in one. The Washington Post © Courtesy of WTVT/Fox 13 Gary Durham in 2002, after he was charged with manslaughter in a road rage killing. Durham died Wednesday following another road rage altercation in Florida . After a traffic mishap in Florida ’s Hillsborough County on Wednesday, Gary Lynn Durham got out of his car and exchanged heated words with another driver. Their argument ended violently, with Durham dying from a gunshot wound on the side of the road, police said.  When investigators dug deeper into the case, they found a sad twist: Durham had recently been released from prison for killing a man in road rage confrontation in 2001. Police say  Durham punched a 48-year-old cancer survivor in the face at an intersection as the two men argued 15 years ago in Tampa . The punch killed the man, Tim Gibbs, and  Durham was convicted of manslaughter. He was sentenced in 2002 and spent...

How is Israel , a 60 year old nation with a population of 7.1 million was able to reach such economic growth that “at the start of 2009, some 63 Israeli companies were listed on the nasdaq more than those of any other foreign country. How is it, that a country only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources, produces more than large, peaceful and stable nations like, Japan, China, India, Canada and the united kingdom. Israel is a very small country. It is smaller by half than San Bernardino County in California . It would sink in Lake Michigan without a trace. It has barely 8 million citizens. It has been in existence for just 60 years, but it is an economic powerhouse. In contrast to its Muslim enemies, who have virtually no indigenous industry, whose people are largely illiterate, but who have natural riches through their almost limitless petroleum resources, Israel has virtually no natural resources. But ye...

Little Johnnie’s mom came home from work and saw cookie crumbs on the counter that were not there earlier that morning before she left for work. Mother cried out to her son, “Johnnie, I want you to come downstairs now”. He came down the stairs, his head down, looking guilty as charged, she new little Johnnie had probably come home and ate a bunch of cookies and spoiled his appetite for dinner. The mom looked at Johnnie, she said, “you know what you did, don’t you!”  “Yes, mommy”, replied little Johnnie. The mom said, “go on now, get out of here and do right”.  “Yes mom”, replied little Johnnie. Later, after dinner, the mom went to her room and found $25 stuffed in her purse. She wondered, “what’s this?” she asked her husband, he said it wasn’t him. She asked her teenage daughter, maybe it was her. The daughter said it wasn’t her so finally she called out “Johnnie, I want you to come downstairs right now”. Little Johnnie came down the stairs, head down, looking guilty as charg...