I would make a terrible speechwriter because words about this day should flow easily. So many have written and spoken about this day’s significance, but when I sit down to write the words don’t flow easily. Perhaps it is because my father survived both WW2 and Korea, so I don’t feel the same sense of…

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Obstacles are opportunities to accomplish tasks in new ways.  I derive a lot of pleasure when I come across a problem and find a solution on my own. Do you? Yes, I probably could google the answer or go to YouTube, but there is a real sense of satisfaction when I engage the brain cells…

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Armenian-American writer William Saroyan wrote in The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze a piece of advice that reads like a rallying cry to live life to its fullest: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste the food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible…

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The parable about the Good Samaritan begins with the lawyer asking Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” and Jesus answers with the parable. The parable is probably one of Jesus’s most famous and concludes with Christ asking, “Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the…

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If the house of the world is dark, love will find a way to create windows. – The Analects of Rumi. My dear friend Tom, the Sufi master, turned me on to the poetry and wisdom of Rumi years ago. I came across the above recently. If we ever needed evidence of the truth of Rumi’s…

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