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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Lesson of the Leaf
Kelin, yes, think of the leaf. The leaf falls from the tree at the right time. It does not tell the tree I want to fall now, or next week. You will like the leaf fall into your business at the right time. This is a Chinese Taoist teaching.
Paul Rux holds three degrees from the University of Wisconsin - Madison: Ph.D. (Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis), M.A.L.S. (Library & Information Studies), B.A. (History & Integrated Liberal Studies). He holds a M.A. in Educational Theory from the University of Toronto, where he was a Graduate Fellow. He also attended Trinity College, University of Dublin, as a special one-year student in the Honours School of History and Political Science. He is a founding member of the Knights of Divine Mercy. His wife Jane and he live in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. They have four grandchildren, the delights of their lives. He is an active member of the World Future Society, has published in its journal The Futurist, and presented at its annual international conference.
Paul Rux holds three degrees from the University of Wisconsin - Madison: Ph.D. (Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis), M.A.L.S. (Library & Information Studies), B.A. (History & Integrated Liberal Studies). He holds a M.A. in Educational Theory from the University of Toronto, where he was a Graduate Fellow. He also attended Trinity College, University of Dublin, as a special one-year student in the Honours School of History and Political Science. He is a founding member of the Knights of Divine Mercy. His wife Jane and he live in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. They have two grandchildren who live across town from them. He is an active member of the World Future Society, has published in its journal The Futurist, and presented at its annual international conference.
Permanent Things
Healthy personal and social order depend on a firm, time-tested moral order first.
"The Permanent Things" include the Ten Commandments despite court rulings based on the current fad for Ethical Relativism.
Time-tested institutions
"The Permanent Things" are bulwarks against personal and social deviance and dysfunction.
Paul & Jane Rux
Proud grandparents of young Wyatt and baby Allison
Permanent Things
Duty, Honor, Country
"The Permanent Things" include sadly human evil.
Conservatives do not trust modern psycho-babble to cure and curb human evil.
Wyatt Earp
Conservatives know humans never outgrow their need for just law and order, good and hard.
Hometown Hero Ted Tredinnick
(Left-right) D. Tredinnick (son to Ted), Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton (presents award), T. Tredinnick (age 93), P. Rux (son-in-law to Ted), State Capitol
"The Permanent Things" include basic laws of economic.
"Americans do not believe the laws of economics apply to them." - H.L. Mencken
Dr. Rux (left) & M.B.A. students
Upper Iowa University, Madison, Wisconsin Center
Dr. Rux presents NFIB scholarship.
NFIB scholarships go to outstanding youth entrepreneurs.
Paul Rux & Aunt Dorothy
The human race is a partnership between generations past, present, and future. Its survival trumps all other agendas.
The themes of history repeat.
The themes of history remain constant. They are part of the "Permanent Things."
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