Today’s post is short and I hope sweet, sweet with truth and meaning. This is the third “anniversary” of my son, Kelsey’s death and this is all I have in me….
Why we should care? A race related post on another blog resulted in a heated exchange, as they so often do. The question was asked [...]

I read about this several years ago in Smithsonian and it gave me the chills. Please follow the site for the story of how these massive underground caves were found . I dispaired of ever seeing them,yet some brave professional photographers did the near impossible.I added a “preview” photo to inspire those of you [...]

Tis the season, for our yearly reflection. On things past and things hoped for. For Peace, Goodwill, Joy and for many the time to reflect on their saviors birth, the miracles of Gods promise. It is the time of cold, dark, the shortest days, a season for going inward, retreat until the hint of spring [...]

Well it is that time of year again for me folks~ life wants to suck the breath out of me, and I am glaring back asking: “you talking to me?”
All around me madness seems to be the norm, lives are being taken to serve peace, lives are taken because they are “inconvenient”, and the way [...]

Co-operation … makes it happen
Co-operation … working together
Dig it!
Co-operation … makes it happen
Co-operation … working together
Funny how prophetic those words from Sesame Street, trying to teach young children a skill they know apparently already know. An interesting study comes out of Yale this month, babies as young as 6 months pick “nice” over “mean”. Babies [...]

The news is not good folks. The deserter rate is up to 1%, which may not sound like much but in an “all volunteer” Army that is quite a few folks who just walk away. A steady increase over the last four years, and a 42% jump since last year point to a stressed out [...]

~ A ballet company dancer goes to a cocktail party,and on a lark has her fortune told. The woman, holding her ring and a bracelet ,looks into her face and tells her a unimaginable story. She will leave the mecca for dancers,New York,and go to a very rural place and do the best work of [...]

I have a low grade flu~ so what to write, beyond grumbling about a fever, body aches and bad nightmares?
Pakistan looks like a bad thing waiting to happen, yet on Friday I hear the good news Bhutto is released from house arrest and elections~ if we can trust President Pervez Musharraf words ~ will be [...]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….
In the month of February in the year 1988 two boy children were born in this, our great city. One white, born with great physical limitations, condemned to a life of seemingly endless pain and sorrow. The second black, also born with what some [...]

“Lord take me where you want me to go
Lord have me meet who You want me to meet
Lord let me know what You want me to say
And Lord?
Keep me out of your way”
Saint of 9/11~ is a beautiful tribute to a Franciscan Priest~ Father Mychal Judge remembered by most as the Firemen’s Priest who was [...]

Early History The tenets of non-violence exists in all of the early Abrahamic religious traditions (Jewish, Christian and Muslim), the Darmic traditions ( Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism) and many pagan traditions. Secular movements use non-violence as a practical or strategic effort purely as practical strategy without the moral or religious worthiness overtones. I note [...]

I tell about my personal pain not because I feel somehow special or different, but because of my belief that in examining any one human story a greater truth can be gleaned. We all struggle with death, loss, that path that turns one way and not the other. My story is your story, just change [...]

Before we leave the story of WW2 CO’s and get into the historical perspective, the story of some of theses brave men deserves a last look. Rather than feel despair at the overwhelming support for war in the U. S., many felt energized, used their experiences to fuel later movements at home and around the [...]

CO’s~ conscientious objectors, a ridiculed segment of our society ~especially in times of war. Yellow bellied cowards who took everything from this nation and then refused to give back ~right?
This week I learned different, after the excellent Ken Burns film The War hinted briefly at CO’s contributions to WW2 ,how they were allowed to become [...]

“..Elephants a-piling’ teak
In the sludgy, smudgy creek,
Where the silence ‘hung that ‘heavy you was half afraid to speak!”
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling
In August when the gas prices rose in a giant leap to $5 a gallon the protest began, quickly turning into pro democracy rallies. In a country that reveres it monks, and each [...]