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Compassion Is More Than Kindness!

Med Laz August 21, 2026 No Comments

Being compassionate involves more than kindness. It is the passion to develop strategies and structures to lift up those who are down. If our political and economic systems allow the marginalized…

The Extraordinary Within the Ordinary!

Med Laz August 20, 2026 No Comments

For years, Lhakpa Sherpa lived a life that gave little hint she was one of the greatest mountaineers in history. After moving to Connecticut, the single mother worked physically demanding,…

I Know Who She Is!

Med Laz August 19, 2026 No Comments

He is 85 and insists on taking his wife’s hand everywhere they go. When he was asked why his wife kept looking away, he responded, “because she has Alzheimer’s”. Then…

Plant a Seed!

Med Laz August 18, 2026 No Comments

This random guy walked up to me while I was at the mall with my grand baby sitting at the table. He said excuse me ma’am. I replied yes sir.…

Ask Three Questions!

Med Laz August 17, 2026 No Comments

ASK THREE QUESTIONS Ask three questions to see what’s inside:What makes you laugh, with nothing to hide?What makes you angry, and ready to fight?What makes you cry, long into the…

Warts and All!!

Med Laz August 16, 2026 No Comments

When Oliver Cromwell in 1764 was about to have his portrait painted, he coined the famous expression: “Paint me, warts and all!” Do we really know for sure that the…

Papal Miter Madness!

Med Laz August 15, 2026 No Comments

During Pope Hat Night at Rate Field (White Sox Park) on Tuesday, August 11th, the Chicago White Sox distributed 40,000 custom papal miters adorned with the team’s logo to honor Pope Leo XIV, a…

An Expense Problem!

Med Laz August 14, 2026 No Comments

I make fifty-five thousand dollars a year. On paper, that sounds grown up. Respectable. The kind of number your high school guidance counselor would nod at and say, “See, you’ll…

Picking Up the Pieces!

Med Laz August 13, 2026 No Comments

A stranger stopped me in the Walmart parking lot last Tuesday and I have not stopped crying since. I was having one of those days. You know the kind. The…

Leaving the Nursing Home!

Med Laz August 12, 2026 No Comments

In 1974, a twenty-three-year-old man named Dan Jury made a decision that went against everything expected of someone his age. He took his eighty-one-year-old grandfather, Frank Tugend, out of a…

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