In his little book, The Heart of L'Arche: a Spirituality for Every Day , Jean Vanier packs a lot of wisdom. I have highlighted over one...

Today I was truly satisfied with our time of worship : it was gentle and unforced, it was honest and informed by the appointed lessons, it w...

Humility, Compassion and Contemplation – July 29, 3017 Earlier today I shared my reflections at an interfaith gathering dedicated to buil...

One of my deepest joys is spending any amount of time with this little man: Louie.  He is the source of my heart's healing and hope. I r...

NOTE : Yesterday's acerbic post about living beyond bourgeois privilege apparently struck a nerve. I keep reading how so many of my whit...

Every day for the past six months I have found myself stunned by the way the current president of the United States finds new ways to degrad...

My day began here and comes to a close here, too: looking at the emerging garden . Worship was simple and full for me, tender-hearted and...

Today I woke up remembering last night's dream about prayer and presence : I entered a hospital room where an old woman I didn't kno...

Today was all about yard work - and listening. The neighbor's yard man stopped to chat with me while I was cutting the front yard with ...

Like Leonard Cohen intones on "Slow," the opening cut on his 2014 masterpiece, Popular Problems: "I'm slowing down the t...

Yesterday I posted these two pictures on my Face Book page with the comment: Kinda fun to see what 40 years looks like side by side.    ...