I do not pretend to know what it is that drives men to behave so abnormally and to devote so much time, energy and cash to an effort so short on reward. Jere Stuart French Gulf Breeze, Florida Bud Guest, the son of poet Edgar A. Guest, had a morning rush-hour radio program in Detroit back in the 1950s and 1960s, and each spring he'd describe how to rate your lawn's appearance. The ideal lawn looked great from a parked car, but a lawn that looked green and weed-free at 5 to 10 miles per hour also scored high. A yard that looked good only at 25 mph or higher, however, was a definite flunker. Paul Stewart Terre Haute, Indiana Prophets Irrespective of their degree of truth, predictions of the future are not without value.
Humans flounder in hesitancy and indecision.
Success in any venture depends less on knowing what to do than in doing it with supreme confidence. A deeply trusted psychic can fuel the needed self-confidence to make even the shakiest underpinnings bear one up on the road to success. Makes me wish I were a believer. James S. Wood Salem, Oregon Barbara Holland's reference to our own Nostradamus, Jeane Dixon, touched a nerve. Fresh back from Vietnam in 1969, I was assigned to escort Ms. Dixon on a tour of an Army hospital in Georgia.