It’s amusing to sit in the aisle seat on a commercial flight. The passengers walking toward the rear of the plane look so serious, scanning for a pote...

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I wrote this in my journal last week: “All worthy institutions fade into irrelevancy in the absence of compassion.” The statement could have been ref...

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There is reading, and there is writing. One is learning, and one is contributing. They are symbiotic; one reinforces the other, and both are essential...

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Today, while touring a display of the works of blown glass artist Dale Chihuly, I was struck by a written summary of his work. Chihuly, a plaque on th...

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“Romantics” get a bad generalization rap. Usually the extra adjective “hopeless” gets attached to them—as in, hopeless to avoid colliding with pain, d...

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Sure, it was just a matter of time until I wrote a blog about Jim Morrison and The Doors.   I’ve spent the past few weeks immersed in an audio ...

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Solomon’s visual of the futility of “chasing after the wind” from Ecclesiastes is on my mind this afternoon. Things feel a little futile right now: se...

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We needed a few more back-to-school items today, so I paid a visit to an upscale shopping mall not far from home. As fate would have it, this is “tax ...

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