Hence The Name

A Treatise on Wanting Things To Be Better for the Next Generation!

When I was very young, my mother used to have fried eggplant, with all the fixins' every Friday night and I always thought it was because that was her favorite meal. To this day I also like that meal, though it was well into my young adult life before I discovered that the reason for that Friday night special was because she used it as a meat substitute due to our family budget needs.
My father used to gather used newspapers and bundle them, planning to meet the big truck with the hanging scales which arrived once a month to gather the bundles, weigh them, and pass on to him an amount of cash equal to seventy-five cents per hundred pounds.

Those examples taught me a great deal about having to work hard, plan well, and "waste not" when it came to the things we wanted, perhaps even needed.
Recognizing that these are different times, shouldn't we still want some sort of fried eggplant and bundled newspapers in the life experiences of the next generation, whether they be our children, our students, our future political or business leaders?

Hopefully, this vehicle will allow me/us to discuss that which builds, praises, and challenges us to consider things that are true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, and admirable - all for the purpose of encouraging growth in character for those who follow us.