As the song goes, “on the second day of Christmas my True Love gave to me…two turtle doves and a partridge in a pair tree.”  My understanding is that the two turtle doves represent the witness of true friendship, loving kindness and devotion or commitment.  …

One of the many ailments that Mom endured during her life was macular degeneration.  As with her other maladies, she would often incorporate the effects of them into her conversations.  Many times she would compliment someone on their appearance, for example, saying, “…my…you look as if you’ve lost weight.…

As we move through the years of our lives we quite naturally do a certain amount of “finding” ourselves so to speak. I am finding personally that the “finding” of “myself” has less and less to do with what is “out there.”…

I’m so glad that it all does not depend upon me.  In saying this, I don’t mean that I am shirking my responsibility to contribute to the world and to the hopes and dreams that we all have for a better more compassionate world where all receive the great dignity that we have as beloved creatures of a Loving God. …

Who has trouble finding their keys?  Without fail, although I have told myself that there is a designated place in the house that I will set my keys, when I arrive home I place them somewhere else that is usually tied to a distraction that I carry into the house with me. …