Several years ago I visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. I really enjoyed gazing at some of the luminous paintings of the great artist Renoir. They are…
Garrison Keillor said, “We always have a backstage view of ourselves.” We let the audience see only the neatly arranged stage. But behind the curtain all kinds of things are…
A baby was born to Mary Teresa Hickey and her husband in 1945. The parents came from Cork, Ireland. The baby was a Down’s Syndrome boy. Mary Teresa held the…
It doesn’t matter what exactly you choose to do with your beautiful life,But I hope that whatever you choose,You go all in. I hope that you give it everything you’ve…
Frederick Buechner, one of my favorite writers, in Listening to Your Life, asks a series of questions designed to help us think about where we have been and where we…
Anxiety’s central message is that we cannot afford to share because we can never have enough. Put more strongly, in a culture marked by anxiety and fear, as is happening today,…
A little boy and his father were driving down a country road on a beautiful spring afternoon. Suddenly out of nowhere a bumblebee flew in the car window. Since the…
