Saturday Mornings

It’s often easy and quick to do something small to help someone, but we rarely do it. Why it matters: We underestimate the value of small an...

Pay attention — both to what enlivens you, as well as to what deadens you. How much of the time, for example, does what enlivens us crea...

Democracy  (NOT) in action — real history is nearly always helpful: In Arizona, Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson has restored...

Just because someone carries it well, doesn't mean it's not heavy. -- David Kessler

I’m wondering …who I would really be if I were not challenged each day by what is around me? Do I welcome it at the time?  Often no. Am I g...

The trouble is that we have made the Bible into a bunch of ideas — about which we can be right or wrong — rather than an invitation to a n...

It is fascinating how often we can feel more free of some things…the next day. Our comfort level with things seems proportional to the exten...

The New York Times Letters from an American

Right where you are, in the hurt and sorrow , that’s right where the insight is, that’s where the answer is, that’s where the wisdom is. Th...

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. -- Eckhart Tolle Why is this so infuriating?  ...ah, but why is it...

As you may have detected, Wednesdays have become a little bit more of a long-skate day at the rink for posts on Saturday Mornings. Today, m...

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand . -- Brenda Ueland

I've noticed ...it is helpful to take note of oneself .  Here's one observation I've made — I am not much of a relational risk-t...

In a homily offered on the final day of the Men’s Rites of Passage (MROP) retreat that served as the material for his book,  Quest for the G...

We go places, so we can take people places. What we appear to be most capable of extending to others is directly related to what we have rec...

When I pray for peace , I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease ...

Live out of your imagination , not your history. -- Stephen Covey

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. -- Paul Coelho

We cannot truly know full meaning in life, until we go through it.  But, we can learn to recognize elements of that meaning from those we h...

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong. -- Ann Patchett

Ever noticed ...when somebody has  what is sometimes referred as the ‘it’ factor? What actually is the IT factor? While a bit hard to precis...

I started worrying about what kind of ground I was on with God. I started worrying about how many birds were in my field, how many rocks, ho...

Art is one of the persistent things that still brings me joy about life. You are who you are — that could be tempered by who you want to b...

James Webb Space Telescope

' Poem for the week' -- "Wild Horses Drink from the River of History": Hours before dark, I follow the stony path from th...

Just because it isn’t predictable, does not mean it’s not reliable. -- Jason Miller

Have you ever prayed a prayer like this:  Dear Father, I come to you with this salutation — aware that I don’t really understand much of who...

Patience breeds perspective. -- Simon  Sinek

One hundred and forty years ago, on September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade. The pa...

All  religious   traditions have universally insisted that religious life cannot be done with the mind alone; that is the biggest single imp...

AXIOS

Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults. --  James  Clear The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can c...

 OK, don't either / or me — both!

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -- Simone Weil

Another lingering reflection , this time following up a bit on my Version of Reality post earlier this week: I have to wonder if our capaci...

The hallmark of a resilient, productive and sustainable culture is that disagreements aren’t risky. When someone cares enough to make an ass...

I’m wondering …about the ways that we create our own version of reality . We seem strangely, yet consistently, capable of picking and choosi...

I was at a Braves baseball game and got up to go to the restroom. Before I washed my hands, I took off my grandmother’s diamond ring she had...

The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief .  It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to  suffer , but in the ...

If you’re just taking somebody else’s word for who the bad guys are, you’re in trouble — we've been lied to over and over about this k...

On the Lighter Side :   Tribune Content Agency

' Poem for the week' -- "My Love": My love has hair Like midnight, But midnight fades to dawn. My love has eyes Like star...

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose . -- Luvvie Ajayi

At the risk of sweeping generalization, politicians want you to be afraid — that’s how they keep their jobs...as the only ones who can prote...

Listen to your life. -- Frederick  Buechner Frederick Buechner was asked on numerous occasions how he would sum up everything he had preach...

I've noticed ...that I often feel much more aware of all that I’m not, rather then what I am. Accordingly, this is something I have to ...

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What If ...we actually believed there was  more than enough  of everything we actually need? No one need starve. There is enough land and e...

There is the law and there are people who operate like they are above the law. Our past experiences influence how we see things — we have ...

From earlier this week: Trump’s hold on the Republican Party is strong enough that his chosen candidate defeated Representative Liz Chene...

About a year ago, I resigned from my day job to address mental health issues and their increasing impact on my life. For as long as I can r...

When you get reactive, get curious .  You have a wound that is asking to be healed . -- Mark Groves

Another lingering reflection , this time following up a bit on my Change Your Mind  post earlier this week: It seems that one of the more si...