A Space True and North

My approaching birthday has me flummoxed.   Yes I know it is only a number.   Yes I know that my life is defined by how I live it and n...

In the years of early awareness we are aware only of the external world.   Our senses fill with scent of the flowers of spring and ...

Thomas Merton struggled with the limits of his intellect.   He struggled with the limits of his faith.   He struggled with the limits of...

“Perhaps the book of life, in the end, is the book of what one has lived, and if one has lived nothing, one is not in the book of life.”...

  Tonight the students are running amok because it is Saint Patrick’s Day.   Only in recent years has this holiday grown to be such ...

  With smoke low in the chill air   Hanging as a gentle reminder   To say the season of cold has not given up yet on us. ...

Soon I will reach a birthday with a zero in it.  I will be sixty.  It seems so fast that the years have sped by.  As I approach this milesto...