The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
