Plotting Resurrection – Sept. 30, 2022
“E.B. White watched his wife Katharine planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life and later wrote about it: “There was something comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance… The small hunched-over figure, her studied absorption in the implausible notion that there would be yet another spring, oblivious […]
Telling Stories – Sept. 29, 2022
“Some stories will die with us if we do not tell them. Imagine the dark energy hidden in our favorite secular and religious texts, packed with treasure we could mine. Imagine the energy locked into our lives, wanting out in the form of stories or letters or family essays, or waiting for some special family […]
Mystery of Hope – Sept. 28, 2022
“Vaclav Havel, former president of Czechoslovakia, put it this way: “Hope is an orientation of the heart… The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is… [Without hope] it is impossible to live in dignity and meaning much less find the will for the ‘hopeless enterprise’ which stands at […]
Savoring Blessedness – Sept. 27, 2022
“Consider the memorable tables of your life: kitchen table, dining table, bedside, boardroom, and communion table. Shapes and purposes vary, but these are the tables around which family, friends, colleagues, adversaries have sat with you… Now is the time to bring the gifts of your life to the table: to remember, retrieve, and savor your […]
