This is my 66th Christmas Day. Although I can vaguely remember the details, long ago I had plans and goals for where I would be in life and how I would measure success. Dim memories. Today I find myself satisfied with being a good way toward better. My quick browse [read more]
Sometimes we face unfathomable choices. And we find a number of ways to deal with them. We delay. We refuse to carefully examine the pieces close to the surface of the issue to determine what those pieces are hiding. Because the questions are so deep, or perhaps we are fatigued [read more]
Gentle whispers turn hearts and minds.
Today is a day that we remember towers and the Pentagon fortress and a field in Pennsylvania. And now, we are building walls from those towers. This morning, I watched my neighbor raise his flag and them appropriately lower it to half-mast in remembrance of the lives lost on September [read more]
If life is about community, the attempt to preserve privilege is a sure path to ruin. Nothing divides quite as effectively as the pretense of superiority. For me, the most awkward moments are when I hear others — or painfully, myself — speaking out of privilege. The frailty of asserting [read more]
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