I grew up amid the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. These were tumultuous times that ushered in vast social and cultural changes. As is common in any significant foundational shift, tremors and even earthquakes erupt; the post-cataclysmic landscape is changed and we adapt, recover and eventually prosper and are better as […]

An unrecalled sage once opined: “That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.”  This week’s shared tale was written by Colleen Kettenhofen, a Phoenix, Arizona-based motivational speaker, trainer, and co-author of the book, The […]

While contemplating the word “fear” this week, I came across a passage from Hermann Hesse’s Trees: Reflections and Poems, initially published in 1984. In it Hesse makes the philosophical case for trees, and how they are the key to essential notions of truth, beauty, home, belonging and happiness. I found it quite profound […]

With all of the anger and vitriol that seems to dominate our national discourse and the real suffering of so many from disease and disaster, a casual observer to our world, might wonder if the only luck that’s out there is too hard to burden. That’s only one view and […]

Ecclesiastes 2:16-17 …So I said to myself, “If the fate of the fool will also befall me, why should I be wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile. For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will […]