Thirteen years ago, as the commercial goes, I received a new lease on life thanks to my organ donor, his family, and a team of doctors and nurses. I hope everyone who reads this will agree to be an organ donor. I really do think that it won’t be long before science takes over and…
Three Lives
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there…
Welcome
As you enter the house, greet it. If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it…. — Matthew 10:12-13. I bet you have friends who when they visit your home a sense of calm sets in. Then again, you probably have friend who brings chaos and madness with every visit. I’d like to be…
Angels Weep
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. No one has insight into all the ideals. No one should presume to judge them off-hand. The pretension to dogmatize about them in each…
Blindness
Blindness isn’t believing in the essential goodness of people, but in failing to see it. — Louise Penny. We had a terrible fire in Charlotte. An apartment building under construction caught on fire, two men were killed, but many more were saved thanks to the heroic efforts of Charlotte firemen and others. Like in other…