The Gift of Aging
When I entered my seventies, my body began to betray me with all sorts of unhappy surprises. I took them as a personal affront. My eyesight, my teeth, my hair, … Continue reading
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Moments of Conscience
History is filled with examples of people persecuted for acts of conscience. They aren’t limited to particular nationalities or cultures or genders. They’re simply individuals who feel or felt an … Continue reading
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Great Emotional Expectations
Even though we have trivialized morality lately, we still feel free to judge others harshly according to an unwritten code we keep in our minds. Mostly, the intensity of our … Continue reading
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Love Over Hate
We’ve all seen films in which people with black skin were treated as though they were less than human. We’ve heard the derogatory remarks of so-called white folk who still … Continue reading
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Nourishment of Nature
Facebook is often dotted with expressions of nostalgia for times when we as children played in the wild, catching crawfish or crickets or fireflies, damming tiny streams or gobbling wild … Continue reading
