Some day soon I am going to try and write about my thoughts about how does one fight injustice without becoming unjust oneself. You might think that it is easy, but I think this internal struggle is at the heart of what we are called to accomplish. The Hubbell Pew is starting to receive some…
Biscuits, Trains, and a Staircase To Nowhere
In Rick Bragg’s latest book, The Best Cook In the World, he tells the story about his mother and biscuits. Like most young women who grew up in the rural south during the depression, Rick’s mother, Margaret, had learned to cook just about everything by eighteen, except her mother wouldn’t let her try her hand at biscuits.…
How Do You Like Your Egg?
It takes longer to hard-boil a man or woman than an egg. — Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday. I’m drawn to Allen’s phrase and believe I know what he is trying to say, that it takes a long while to change the nature of a man or woman. He uses the phrase in the context of saying…
Self-Importance and Status Are The Devil’s Handiwork
Every person on this planet is special, every place on earth is special, and when we elevate one person over another or elevate one place or country over another, we create status. Status says that one person or place has more value than another or one place or person is more important than another, and…
In Order To Survive, We Must Protect Our Planet
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. — Jacques Cousteau. This morning I wrote a long post about Cousteau’s words. Then as I began the process of posting my meditation disappeared, as if Cousteau…