Monthly Archives: January 2014

The solitude of an early morning appeals to me.  Perhaps solitude, alone, appeals to me. But the mix of solitude and an early morning is food for my soul.  I love the time before the sun shoves the darkness into … Continue reading →

About three years ago, a friend shared with me that, each year on the anniversary of her father’s death, she burns a yahrzeit candle. She said, “It’s a Jewish tradition to mark the day with a candle that burns for 24 hours. … Continue reading →

It is important, I think, to give people the benefit of the doubt; look for the good lurking beneath the sinister cover, as it were.  Too often, the State is complicit in wrecking lives when those lives might have been … Continue reading →

Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin~ Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826 This translates, roughly, into “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.” … Continue reading →

When I look in the mirror, if I see no reflection, just a smudge where my heart used to be, it’s time to consider just which way I’m heading and it’s time to look closer, to try harder to see. … Continue reading →

Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. ~Herman Hesse~

Humans’ understanding of the world in which we live is restricted by our ability to comprehend things outside our realm of experience and beyond the limits of our imagination.  We understand how animals can feel pain because we understand, to … Continue reading →

Sometimes, we’re too tough on ourselves and too tough on others; we demand for the sake of demanding, rather than for any reasonable purpose.  We insist on following processes that do not suit us, though their purpose was simply to … Continue reading →

If you have a friend, you would do the same for him (or her) as you would do for your family, because a true friend is just the same as family, just without the legal paperwork. Your friend, your true … Continue reading →

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” ~Mark Twain~

Doing good by accident or coincidence is not sufficient.  Being good requires conscious thought, recognition that one has choices, and actively and, in light of that recognition, deliberately choosing to do the right thing.  Not think the right thing, do … Continue reading →

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. “ ~Martin Luther King, Jr.~ On … Continue reading →

Another Sunday.  For some, the day to rest, for some to work, for some to go to church, for some to question religion.  Every day of the week is a little like this day, this Sunday, but we call them … Continue reading →

I drink tea and forget the world’s noises. ~Chinese saying~