Face it: we’ve all been through a lot over the past year and a half.  And it’s not like we’ve experienced anything like this before. The last major pandemic was in 1918, over a century  …
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Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes and figures. A square piece of paper is folded so that it looks like a crane or an insect or a box or a camel  …
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SPOILER ALERT for the film News of the World On the surface, News of the World—based on a book of the same name—tells the story of a Civil War Veteran who not only shares the  …
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I like to walk. I was a hiker as a kid, and in college, I would go out walking especially if I had something difficult with a relationship to figure out or a struggle I  …
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There is just no way around it. Grieving sucks. It is challenging, difficult, life-changing in all the ways that it grabs a hold of us. It is uncomfortable, disconcerting, and exhausting. When we are in  …
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“Where were you?”  That is a question asked of those who remember the assassination of JFK. It is striking that however long it has been they can still remember vividly that moment. Where were you  …
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“Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.” Kahlil Gibran, Sand & Foam p. 28 After our person dies the feeling of being lost and missing them  …
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The death of a person we are attached to brings a lot of changes in our life. It meets us and brings new challenges. Part of what is difficult is that we don’t get to  …
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Fear. It has been with us forever. It is one of the basic and natural emotions that we have. Fear alerts us to danger. Fear informs us that we are exposed and have been laid  …
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Emerson used to say: “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” When gone, every person leaves behind a legacy, the fruit of his passing through life. Sometimes we focus on the material  …
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