Tough times. A couple of weeks back I had an interesting talk with my friend Frank. We worry about our republic as the rhetoric continues to ramp up Continue Reading
Conversations with a Friend
Frank Pauc is a good friend and we meet on a regular basis for beer and nuts, doing our best to solve the world’s problems and our own. Once our Continue Reading
The Power of Charity
I’ve a daily practice. It’s pretty much the first thing I do after waking in the morning and stretching in bed. I stand slowly and cross to the Continue Reading
Dignity and Integrity
Dignity and integrity – are two big words, loaded with meaning, that go hand in hand together. Integrity validates oneself; it’s feeling that what Continue Reading
Carrying On & Forward
Death leaves you empty. There’s a large hole that the departed once filled. The pain is in your heart and often it feels as if you can’t go on. But Continue Reading
Rituals Help Close the Edges of Emptiness
When your friend dies, it gets you thinking. Grief is always a jumbled bunch of thoughts and feelings dripping out with a tortuous slowness or pouring Continue Reading
Saying Goodbye
Contemplating fear and death I guess it was only natural to think about saying goodbye. Recently a good friend passed. I’m guessing we knew her for Continue Reading
Alone, I’m Done For
The title slipped out. I wrote about fear, fear of dying recently. Not easy to accept that it’s coming for me as it does for all. Can’t hide, that’s Continue Reading
Walking the Narrow Bridge
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Rb. Nachman’s verse: “The whole world is like a narrow bridge but despite that, we must not be afraid.” Easier Continue Reading
An Ode to Joy on the Anniversary of Beethoven’s Death
I wrote most of this after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The devastation has continued and only grows worse. It almost masks other conflicts and Continue Reading
This Too
I may ramble a bit; forgive me. Been thinking that depression screws up your focus – too much or too little. Can’t keep your eyes/brain from moving Continue Reading
Want to Stay Connected? Think I O U 2
Stay connected. Seems like a good idea. After all, it was Aristotle who observed almost 2,400 years ago that man is a social animal. We may not be Continue Reading