As we look about our world today, our neighborhoods and cities, our country and our world, we see senseless violence and dehumanization everywhere. We may wonder “where is all this coming from – all this hatred and focused harm on each other?” …

I can see myself as a child standing in the center of a merry-go-round, as my brother begins to push the great circle so that it is spinning.  As the centripetal force builds, I can feel the force pushing me outward yet I struggle to remain poised in the center. …

When we try to understand anything, most of us have at our disposal the ability to think, to remember and to will. In other words, we tend to perceive and experience our lives in a way that brings together the faculties of mind, memory and will. …

In order to see something, it has to be visible and we have to perceive it. Light is normally what is needed for sight. Sunlight naturally or artificially produced is what allows us to see concrete things in this world,   However, we also have the capacity to recognize both that we are seeing and what we are seeing.…

 In some sense, I am a planner.  Over the years, I have planned vacations by doing research, booking excursions, and creating itineraries.  Most times that has made for a very pleasant and often predictable trip.  What is exhilarating I have found, though, are the in-between spaces that I build into the vacation where nothing is planned. …