Tuesday -- There’s a story about a teenage boy mysteriously losing weight.His doctor, stumped by the symptoms, huddled with several other caregivers to decide which medical tests to run. There was no shortage of assessments and opinions, and quarrels about…
“I have never been lost,” Daniel Boone once said about exploring remote areas. “But I will admit to being confused for several weeks.”That’ll preach. And I will admit to the same. And it is no surprise, given the world in…
Tuesday -- “Sometimes the world tries to knock it out of you. But I believe in music.” August RushAnd yes, music is a part of our DNA, “woven into the very structure and sensorium of our bodies” (thank you, Maria…
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” Maya Angelou reminds us. And I say, Amen.And yet, darkness is still very real. Or maybe, it’s just that some people still don’t trust that the light is there. (Okay, maybe…
Tuesday -- This week… To love at all (anything in life) is to be vulnerable. I get it. I do.What troubles me, is that when I feel unnerved or unsettled or afraid, I become wary of the very gifts—thoughts, feelings,…
Sherry Turkle visited a Darwin exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History with her teenage daughter. At the entrance of the show stood a cage with two grand Galapagos turtles. Magnificent creatures from a fantasy world.Feeling sorry for the…
Tuesday -- A young couple moved into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the washing outside."That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly.…
Tommy was his parent's pride and joy. A very bright, creative and contented little boy, he began kindergarten with his parent's certainty that he would flourish. At the end of the first week, Tommy brought home pictures he had colored.…
“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve,” Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us. “You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart…
On one day in 2013, I walked across a bridge. The sun shone down from a bleached blue sky. The air was cool, but our spirits don't notice, as we stand and sing under the sign, Edmund Pettus Bridge. We…
