How We Spend Our Days

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with...

Three Years Later

Today marks the three-year blogoversary of my time in this space. Almost three hundred posts later, I ponder what this blog means to me. I started this blog in an effort to deal with my father’s passing. When he passed, a large part of me couldn’t fathom a...

Existing or Living ?

It is a familiar scene. Stale coffee, high-pitched voices and low whispers try to find a home among the puke yellow painted walls. There are people everywhere trying too hard to mask what they are feeling. I overhear a couple of voices as I go up to the hospital...

This Ordinary Life

           “And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure...