Saturday Mornings

Problems arise when we start compromising our own standards, those we have set for ourselves, in order to earn the admiration of others. Pro...

I’ve noticed …that I don’t see myself as particularly emotionally brave .  Is that because I’m not? Or, because of something affecting the w...

True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope , a capacity for life, a resilience , an abil...

When things are integrated , they hold together; when things are dis-integrated, they fall apart — this seems true in many domains. Beware ...

Most people identify clutter as a tangible entity. It’s that pile of papers, books, and objects sitting on your desk waiting to be put away....

‘ Poem for the week’ — “You’re the Top”: Last night I get all the way to Ocean Street Extension, squinting through the windshield, wipers s...

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together . -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

When did we forget that our individual good is a function of our collective good? Somewhere along the way we made a trade.  We bought into a...

In the long-run, prioritization beats efficiency. -- James Clear

Knowing that you love the  Earth  changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the Earth loves yo...

The gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. -- Dorothy Day

The real enemy is the one who keeps saying someone else is the enemy. I am amazed sometimes at what people have strong opinions about, espe...

AXIOS

The poet David White once said, What you can plan is too small for you to live. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of plans when it comes to fina...

What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads ? -- Albert Camus

Humility seems to be something that needs to be developed. In that sense, it may not be very natural.  Or, whatever the mitigating factors a...

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. -- Albert Einstein

I’m wondering …why does nearly all spiritual practice include conscious breathing ? Perhaps it is because you can't you experience spiri...

God allows people a great deal of freedom to do evil and ruinous things. Giving humans moral responsibility entails allowing us to act immo...

Life is too short not to stretch yourself — it might hurt a little, but typically not as often as you fear and not nearly as much as you gr...

‘ Poem for the week’ — “Come Let Us Be Friends”: Come, let us be friends, you and I,      E’en though the world doth hate at this hour; Let...

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world. -- David Brooks

Society is a social agreement. The agreement essentially is bigger than its ability to enforce itself.  In other words, enforcement in a soc...

As I’ve gotten older , grayer, and, arguably, wiser , I’ve come to understand that the things that drive me to live out of balance, de-prio...

Ever noticed …that people have different strengths (not to mention, appreciate that they do)? Some are strong physically, others are strong...

Morning Brew

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Walk ; walk or wheel yourself outside if you can; seek out green, where furred or feathered things might be. -- Emma Mitchell To be alive i...

A grandfather is talking with his grandson. The grandfather says, “In life, there are two wolves inside of us which are always at battle. On...

Only the curious have something to find. -- Sean Watkins

Sometimes words fail and simply have to defer to the language of beauty of the natural world: Top 10 pics of Havasupai (ok, 11...)... here...

The joy of leadership comes from seeing others achieve more than they thought they were capable of. -- Simon  Sinek

-- Heather Cox  Richardson ,  Letters from an American

I've noticed ...that when I am outside , especially for prolonged periods, something shifts internally for me.

God would prove Jesus’ anointing not by vindication, but by resurrection . -- Russell Moore , The Evangelical Temptation to Prove Ourselves ...

What if it’s Saturday and you don’t yet know about the hope of  Easter Sunday? Easter is about hope, but first…

The only way to know how to do something really well is to do it a lot. Strength is something you discover, sometimes by intent, but more o...

FASTCOMPANY It’s not even the end of March yet, but measles cases in the United States have already surpassed the total number of measles c...

The psychologists and the theologians, the poets and the mystics, assure us that impasse can be the condition for creative growth and transf...

We all have ability.  The difference is how we use it. -- Stevie Wonder

In the spirit with which I ended last week's post , I'm starting this week's with this wonderful human (and musical) story: I...

  Effort is what drives success, not talent . -- Bruce  Kasanoff

I’m wondering … why does it seem like like it is way more challenging to do what’s good for yourself, than it is not to? Or, put it this wa...

The Bible doesn't end with souls ascending to a disembodied heaven.  It ends with a fully embodied heaven descending to Earth . The  re...

We really need to get more serious about eliminating single-use products. Like many things in life, government is often about making adju...

GALLUP - Front Page The Dispatch In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our repu...

We are living in an age of selfishness. Many of us noticed an increase in selfish behavior during the early days of the pandemic. At the tim...

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength. -- George Seaton Bowes

The historian Howard Zinn wrote, “The most revolutionary act one can engage in is […] to tell the truth .” Indeed! I think the revolutionar...