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 Dorothy and Megan Grace, circa 2005 Photo Credit: Mark Grace Well, 2012 had to be a good year by all accounts. We managed to dodge several apocalypses. Now at year’s end everyone seems to be more or less in the same place they were when the year started. Of course this game of The-End-of-the-World-As-We-Know-It appears to be one … Continue reading: Inspiration for the New Year  Rome Violinist and Family, March 2001 Photo Credit: Mark Grace One of the most frequent questions I hear people being asked around Christmas time is, “What is your favorite Christmas memory?” I love that question. It inevitably invites us into the worshipful rooms of our lives, often connected to our sense of childhood wonder and personal experiences of … Continue reading: Is There Room In Our Hearts for the Whole Story?  Did you ever have one of those days when you thought, “It just doesn’t get any better than this.” I had one of those days yesterday. It started with Daniel Solis knocking on our day at 8:00 a.m., pots and pans and a good two pounds of chorizo in hand. He fixed up the best breakfast … Continue reading: Comfort and Joy  As we sit here among the millenials And the hip hop happy nexters a velvet fog comes floating down From the speakers hidden up there, startled, delighted, suddenly thirty-five years younger, I look happily around, expecting other faces to register the same ecstatic recognition, but Torme is not Mogen David, Mel doesn’t even run in that crowd he’s Dom Perignon in a Waterford flute, which explains … Continue reading: How Could I Forget Mel Torme?  About twelve years ago I had the privilege to get acquainted with a Russian psychologist and professor at the university in Samara, Russia. She was in the United States courtesy of Dr. Doug Dickens, who had been conducting clinical training with her students on the clinical pastoral education model (CPE). Photo Credit: www.123rf.com Yes, you read that … Continue reading: Conspicuous Consumption and What We Owe Our Neighbors  Photo Credit: www.123RF.com Here we are huddled around tables ten by ten, dutifully inspired, gently scolded, vigorously exampled and relentlessly teleprompted toward a triumphant future, needing to surface for air, I rise and find the exit, squeeze through mammoth ballroom doors like Dorothy tip toeing away from the wizard’s presence, stepping into bright lights, I stumble upon one hundred tables set for lunch by a battalion of brown skinned, black pantsed and vested waiters, casually hablando el … Continue reading: CHANGE |
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