Patience

  “Impatience is an argument with reality. The desire for something to be different from what we are experiencing in the here and now….

Laboratory Workers

Today’s Blog is again a combination of quotes and thoughts: “In a quarter million clinical laboratories in the United States alone, techs work every…

Whining

Today’s Blog contains an excerpt from Doris Wild Helmering, a long-time friend and good person who aims to help us live more positive lives….

Chasing Hope

Chasing Hope

“Journalism is an act of hope. It rests on the conviction that excavating the truth makes a difference, that sunlight is a disinfectant for…

Awards for Changing the World

Awards for Changing the World

Some time back, in doing a review of Lyndsey Stomebridge and her We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love…

All the Beauty

All the Beauty

This week I’ve figured we all need as much balm for our battered spirits as we can easily locate. I have a book handy…

Sacred Nature

Todays blog is four quotes from Karen Armstrong, Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World, Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. Hopefully, something…

Resistance must become our vocation

“The theologian Paul Tillich did not use the word “sin” to mean an act of immorality. He, like Kierkegaard, defined sin as estrangement. For…