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Sunday’s Thought (s)
Hold On, Keep Going, Trust and be Trustworthy. At the Sacred Heart Catholic Church last week, at the Saturday evening service, the priest said a few things that I have been thinking about. I sometimes attend the five o'clock mass with my friend Teresa, but she is in...
Sunday’s Thought
"All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice." - Joy Harjo I read this just now in Reconciliation, A Prayer from How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2002 and knew that it is a perfect Sunday Thought for these times. While I was pulling up...
Sunday’s Thought
"There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun."-- Thomas Merton
Under the Weather? Sort Of.
My foot hurts. Maybe my ankle is sprained. I have been working hard this week, perhaps a little too hard? ( And walking and swimming and riding a bike when it is not raining)-- I am wondering what we were thinking fixing up the old garage next door and turning into a...
Sunday’s Thought
“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.” ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
I Hope Little League Isn’t Rained Out
Little League is almost over, and my last umpire shift is tonight, since I’m off to Anchorage for an author event Friday at UAA and will miss the final game. Of course I read the news about shots fired at a field full of kids in the Lower 48. I am trying not to think...
Sunday’s Thought
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites for they love to pray on the street corners and be seen by others. When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.-- From the Gospel according to Matthew