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I’ve never been big on anniversary-type, annual celebrations. I always have to do the math to figure out how long I’ve been married (12 or 13 years) or how long I’ve been sober (one more year than married) and I barely acknowledge my birthday (unless its for a blog post.) The people I love might…

I was 8 when this Good Times episode ran. Not sure if I saw it then, although the program was a family staple back in the days when we only got three network channels and PBS. It wasn’t until I started watching reruns on YouTube recently that I realized how edgy this show really was…

Why is it that we are so surprised when people do wonderful, selfless, one-sided, things for us?   I’m talking about those times when we have a need – expressed or hidden – and someone senses it and fills it without asking a thing in return. When the help, guidance or counsel comes with no…

Does Washington D.C. Need a Spiritual Stimulus Package? Reverend Dr. Suzan Johnson-Cook, the woman that the New York times described as “Billy Graham and Oprah rolled into one,” thinks so – and she is bringing it in the form of mid-day, interdenominational church services to be held on seven consecutive Tuesdays from 12:15 to 12:45…

A George Eliot quote on a framed handprinted greeting card sits on the fireplace mantle in my living room. It reads: “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” I thought of it when I saw this video. No matter how deeply life or loss or poverty…hardship of any kind…appears to have its…

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.Love them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.Be good anyway. Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable.Be honest…

The Swine Flu (H1N1) moved through the US news cycle like Britney Spears or Paris Hilton. Much ado…and then nothing. Yet, schools still closed in New York and three people – a 2 year old, a teenager and a person in their 60s – died here this week.  Then, just when it seemed like all…

I know, ridiculous question, right? I mean faith is…faith. It is belief in something unseen. It is…I don’t know…it’s…faith. There are some words that we use (and sometimes abuse) but rarely do we consider with intention what it is that we are actually talking about when we toss them around. I have faith. You don’t…

Truth gets a bad rap these days. The notion that something can be true rather than relative gets all wrapped up in our ethnic and cultural differences and ongoing power struggles about who has the right to tell whom what is or is not right or wrong. That’s cool. I get it. We can be…
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