The message is simple. We are all connected, like the pick-up sticks in the photo. Move one even the tiniest bit, and the others quiver....

On a visit to Mexico City this past weekend the fact of seven billion humans (and counting) struck me as I stared down a long boulevard,...

“Blessed are the flexible for they shall not get bent out of shape.” — Betsy Shirley (foster mother to more than 20 boys, including Buck...

“Sustainability is rooted in looking to the inherent workings of nature as a model, with the idea that the natural systems of the world...

According to the Mirriam-Webster dictionary, the etymological root of ‘responsible’ is the Latin respondere, to respond. As a verb, ‘to...

In the first week back home from vacation, a series of inspirations have been quietly connecting in my mind. These words spoken by...

“From the narrow places I called to you, from the wide places you answered me.” — Psalms/Tehillim 118:5* I am writing this while on...

At what instant does the break in the bone realize it must join its other half? — Mark Nepo, from his poem Waiting. Today I spoke with my...

“We are where our attention is.” — Michael Brown My friend Patricia’s attention was on the intriguing doorways and windows along a steep...

“Be yourself; everyone else is taken.” — Oscar Wilde I often write about stories in this blog, how stories of the past can seep into the...