There’s something sleeping inside usDown in the soil of our chestsIts pulse hides behind our pulseIts breath behind our breath. When the world is grim, it awakensAnd grows to fill…
There once was a young woman who had a baby boy. Just after her son’s baptism, a ragged old man came to her, and offered to grant her one wish on behalf…
Imagine that Jesus is watching television with his twelve disciples. They’re on furlough from teaching and healing, taking it easy in the living room of Peter’s mother-in-law, doing a little…
Stock market guru Jim Cramer, host of television’s Mad Money, says, “Bulls make money.” Then he adds, “Bears make money.” Then the punch line, “Pigs get slaughtered.” “Bulls make money. Bears make…
A hundred feet above the Apurimac River, near the remote village of Huinchiri, Peru there is a suspension bridge that connects the Limi-Cuzzo Road. It has been there since the…
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…
