It is impossible to fight darkness with more darkness. Only light will work. We do not need to be philosophers, or saints, or sages to own this truth. And we do not need to walk on water, or hot coals, or even air. We need only shift our awareness to see from a different perspective, […]
Believe it or not, the headline reads, “Runners Pant Less” Find it… on page 120 of the 1976 Oak Harbor yearbook. I never noticed the headline before, or if I did I must have erased it from my memory. Either way, over forty years later, there it was and the truth of it could not […]
My heart is troubled. But I am not discouraged. Vigilantes shot Ahmaud Arbery to death. He was a 25-year-old unarmed black man jogging through their neighborhood. Viewing Arbery through the lens of their own prejudice, they presumed that a running black man must be a criminal. My heart is troubled. But I am not discouraged. […]
Stay-home fatigue is a thing. Without intending to do so, most of us have discovered over the past weeks that much of our former lives ran on automatic pilot. Routines like the workday and the school week, grocery shopping, and hitting the gym structured our days (ok… not the gym so much for me), populated […]
James Russell Lee died on Christmas Eve 1986. I lost my Grandfather. His heart simply gave out… it was his time. I would like to say that I accepted the fact that he was gone with reverence and understanding – but I can’t. His death came as a crushing blow to me. It was sudden […]
