This essay was originally published in October 2016, on my website CoolMindWarmHeart.com, during Donald Trump’s first run for President While Donald Trump may be colossally unworthy of our trust to be president, there is one thing about him I honor: his role in making saints. (Not that he knows he’s doing so.) I’m not cracking wise […]
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Less than a week before stepping into year 82, a slogan, or motto, or maybe just a wordy bumper-sticker of common sense appeared in the night kitchen: “We have all the time we need to find God.” That’s such a liberating notion. And at least one reason I also find it full of delight is
My first go-round. It’s always such a gift to be reminded of life’s physical fragility, which in some ways is a rarity for me, man of steel that I pretend to be. Yet I am also, or certainly aspire to be, ready to say farewell at any moment. I cannot imagine too many things more
I’m grateful that I didn’t discover my beloved in the barn hanging but not quite dead. I know what I would have done. I would have sat with her as she died, surrounding her with my love. She knew I wouldn’t waver in supporting her choice. Serving the call of the other’s heart was the
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It would seem that, quite possibly, the ultimate measure of health in any community might well reside in our ability to stand in awe at what folks have to carry rather than in judgment of how they carry it. Greg Boyle, Jesuit priest, founder of Homeboy Industries When I consider my life from this
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