March 9, 2016 – Keeping Quiet

March 9, 2016 – Keeping Quiet Keeping Quiet An excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s Poem titled “Keeping Quiet:” “If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt...

February 24, 2016 – A Great Gift

February 24, 2016 – A Great Gift A Great Gift February 23, 2016 “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil (1909-1943) French philosopher and mystic    Generosity is a human characteristic that is hard to resist, seems to...

February 17, 2016 – Perspective

February 17, 2016 – Perspective Perspective February 17, 2016 “There are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up that are making it impossible...

January 27, 2016 – Politics

January 27, 2016 – Politics Politics “Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) Canadian/American economist, diplomat                                 When you look at the current American...

January 20, 2016 – Pep Talk

January 20, 2016 – Pep Talk PepTalk   “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.”                                                                                    Rumi (1207-1273) Sufi poet    Is there still such a thing as...