Last week, I started a leadership course on interacting with people experiencing homelessness and trauma. One session was about de-escalation. When a situation starts getting tense (in a library, for example), theRead More…
I had cataract surgery this morning. (Yes, I’m of a certain age.) So lately, because of my upcoming procedure, readings about seeing have “caught my eye.” (Groan if you must…) Anyway, here’sRead More…
The president of my university says this. “The most effective people are learners rather than knowers. Knowers, assuming they have arrived, draw only on what they have learned. Learners, on the otherRead More…
Sometimes I don’t know how to be. There’s the honesty of hurting, the optimism of hoping. the acceptance of reality, the holiness of questioning, the freedom of laughter, the choice of trusting.Read More…
The Proverbs are for “gaining wisdom and instruction; for understanding words of insight; for receiving instruction in prudent behavior, doing what is right and just and fair…”(Prov. 1:2-3) We should be prettyRead More…
I love this by Father Richard Rohr. “Our task is to find the good, the true, and the beautiful in everything—even, and most especially, in the problematic. The bad is never strongRead More…
It seems most of us were raised with a right/wrong lens. Let’s call it the “sin” lens. It’s the way we see the world. But I think there are a couple ofRead More…
Definition: Having become conscious or aware of something. Roused from sleep. Remember that Robert DeNiro/Robin Williams movie, “Awakenings,” where the DeNiro character awakens from his catatonic state through a certain medication? IRead More…
This morning I read a headline and asked myself if it was even true. When did I get so skeptical? It wasn’t even political! But with A.I. and deep fakes and theRead More…
I’ve been musing on a more contemplative way of living. My outer world swirls…a lot. Some of it is painful. If I were to give into it, I’d be sucked into theRead More…