It has been said that Thanksgiving was never supposed to be shut up in one single day. Feasting on food, family, sharing good cheer, and giving thanks for all our many blessings shouldn’t be limited to a twenty-four-hour period. “Giving” and “thanks” should be as abundant as the air we […]

This week’s Inspiration continues the theme of giving shared over the past two weeks in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday. I think it beautifully illustrates the wonderful boomerang effect of generosity. Invariably, our unconditional giving to others returns to us the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and […]

To My Magnificent Fellow Life Travelers: “The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.” – H. U. Westermayer I came across this powerful Thanksgiving quote this week. It is attributed to a person I never […]

Moses ben Maimon, who is more commonly known as Maimonides (1135-1204), was a Jewish philosopher-physician-astronomer-rabbi who greatly influenced the thinking and doctrine of not only his own religion but of Christian and Islamic thinking as well. In his writings on the ladder of charity, Maimonides describes eight ways to give, […]