Nellie has been guarding the Lego tower built by my granddaughter, Frannie, for three days now. One has to wonder what is going on in our cat’s mind. Will the tower fall eventually? Who knows? I certainly am walking gingerly around the house. I have certainly seen more fascinating pictures, but this one tickles me…

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Imprisoned multiple times for upholding his ideals of justice, Vaclav Havel, knew the value of hope as a lifeline of sanity and survival, for the individual as well as for the  society. He writes: The kind of hope I often think about … I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of…

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Anthony Doerr’s best seller, All the Light We Cannot See, is a best seller and award winner. Besides his prose, I am drawn to the novel’s title. How often do we ignore the light inside our neighbor or family member. God places a large degree of light in each of us, and yes eventhough life can…

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Everything in its place is a book of essays by Oliver Sacks, but it is also a phrase you hear often in organizations and households. Suzy and I go back and forth whenever a new item arrives at our home. One or both of us will say, “Where are we going to put it,” and unless…

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Bonnie Smith Whitehouse in her classic, Afoot and Lighthearted, reports that Beethoven’s creative routine included a walk each day after lunch. It was a way for him to separate his work environment from his thinking environment. As I sit at my desk, I look out onto our street and sidewalks. People pass all day walking their dogs,…

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