My Worst Fear
Sooner or later it happens to all of us. I’m in my very first “home health care” store. You know, the ones with the crutches and bedpans in the window. I’m waiting for my appointment with James, who is going to set me up with a ...
A Visit from the Other Side
Dragonflies were Linda’s totem animal. They would often fly up to her and hover in front of her, or land on her hand and remain still while she spoke softly to them. Linda could sit by the pond for hours watching a new dragonfly hatch ...
Linda’s Gift
They say that I am dying but I am not going away. Where could I go? I am here. ...
Imagine Peace
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not so sure about the former. Albert Einstein Sebastian Junger’s new book entitled War, tells of his experience embedded with troops in a remote part of ...
A Life without Plans
Last night I watched a captivating1958 film called Inn of the Sixth Happiness, based on the true story of a British maid named Gladys Aylward (played by Ingrid Bergman), who sets off alone for China in the 1930’s to become a ...
Hurry-Worry Never Works
In 1959, Tsung Tsai, a Buddhist monk, escaped from the Red Army troops that destroyed his monastery, and walked three thousand miles across China to Hong Kong, nearly dying in the process. Years later he ends up living in upstate New ...
Snookered
The waves are breaking gently on shore as I take my regular walk down Baldwin beach on Maui. The drop-dead gorgeous beach stretches a half-mile before me, with hardly a soul on it. I take in the special color of the water today, a ...
Arranging the Furniture on the Titanic
You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don’t you? Otherwise you wouldn’t be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don’t know it. Anthony de Mello I love setting ...
