As Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11 in 1963, astronaut Mike Collins orbited the moon alone while his co-explorers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin famously landed, walked and hopped on… Read More »Not of this world
Most of us keep mementos, keepsakes that we cherish, often in the form of photographs. They can be in a gold locket we wear around our neck. They can be… Read More »Keepsake
It was the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Beads of all colors – red, orange, yellow, green, blue. Long frizzy hair on girls and boys, men and women. Tie-dyed shirts and dresses.… Read More »Aquarius
Butterflies, dragonflies, katydids, hummingbirds, ladybugs. Translucence; gossamer wings. Translucence breathes between the lines as Luke’s tells the story of Jesus’ appearance to the disciples after his resurrection; a gauzy presence; earthly and real,… Read More »Gossamer Wings
They took each other’s arms and started to walk. Arm in arm they crossed the Alabama River on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The Selma civil rights march, which took… Read More »Love Unknown
_____ A married couple took in a homeless woman, and instead of showing gratitude, the woman turned them into Child Protective Services, accusing the parents of neglect, starvation and other abuses of their… Read More »Two Coaches and a Geography Teacher
A woman stands in the front hall of her house. Crying, she says to her son who is on his way out the door that he is the best son… Read More »Teen Angels
Hulu’s original series The Path takes us into the life of a spiritual community that holds at its center the vision of a ladder and challenges individuals to climb the rungs to get closer to… Read More »Skin to Skin
Who are you?Who, who, who, who?Who are you?Who, who, who, who?Who are you?Who, who, who, who?Who are you?Who, who, who, who? In their classic song, The Who ask an essential… Read More »Unconditional Love
Technically, it was a burglary, but it felt like a robbery. A man and his nephew broke into our house nearly 40 years ago and took some $20,000 worth of… Read More »At An Unexpected Hour
