“I wish I read your Sabbath Moment before my meeting,” my friend, a hospice chaplain, tells me. “I was just with my hospice supervisor. Her question to me, ‘What are your long term goals?’” “I wanted to laugh out loud,” she…
For Rugby fans, Saturday was magical. For non-fans, Saturday was magical. And heartwarming.South Africa wins their third World Cup. The enduring image? 28-year-old Siya Kolisi, the Springboks’ first black captain, lifts the trophy.In my TV room, I smile big, and…
We are wired to savor. To live awake and attentive, present in the moment… “being spontaneously surprised by the goodness and beauty of living.”What is not a surprise is that savoring is also good medicine for our blue moods.But I forget…
I try not to cry on airplanes. It’s not kosher. And, it looks eccentric.But when I watch movies or read books that tug at my heart, I cry. I used to be self-conscious about it. But not so much anymore.…
Oliver Sacks lived bigger than life. Passionate, eccentric and engaged. As a doctor, (renowned neurologist), he treated patients who suffered, well, from just about everything (including unusual neurological disorders, and you may remember him from the movie, Awakenings).On this, he…
An all-star quarterback retired this past week. Andrew Luck is 29. Which means, too young to retire. Because of years of chronic pain, he made the decision based on priorities other than his job; health, family and joy.He was booed…
Did someone go through our world and change the price tags that determine what we value? And what grounds us? It feels that way to me.In conversations and email, I hear two consistent themes; depletion (from overload, distraction and hurry)…
In January, near a sign that read, “Prayer only No visit. No phone,” I sat and prayed, in Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris.Watching the inferno this past week, my heart hurt. Sometimes we don't have words.I can tell you that I…
The flood was several weeks ago, and I stopped by to see how things were going and went into Sykes' grocery store (Ellen Gilchrist tells her story, just after Katrina). The proprietor told me about filling the sandbags, who all was…
My friend Tim Hansel wrote a book on parenting. He asked his young sons, "Boys, how do you know Dad loves you?"He figured that they would say, "Daaaad, remember when you took us to Disney world, like for 10 days!" They didn't say that, so he knew he…
