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Cobwebs and Cataracts

Joan had cataract surgery. Overnight she developed all kinds of wrinkles. Well, actually, she simply hadn’t seen them before. With her eyesight improved, looking...

Nurturing Gratitude

“Nurturing gratitude makes us happy,” says Spiritual Practices for the Brain author Anne Kertz Kernion in this brief video on gratitude. How do you...

Permission to Notice

When I was in Kindergarten, I took the school bus home. The driver dropped me off three blocks away from my house. Since my...

From a Mountain of Trash to Beauty

This morning, my husband, John, and I took a lap around the paved loop that tops a city park not far from where we...

Cherishing Meeting Participants

“Cherish what is simple. Be in awe of what is great.” —Christopher de Vinck in The Center Will Hold I am sitting in the usual...

St. Ignatius’s Model of Contemplative Leadership

St. Ignatius Loyola offers us a model of contemplative leadership, as shown in the following ten characteristics of leaders. Contemplative leaders… See the real. Ignatius invites...

Childhood Joy

What did you enjoy when you were a child? Are you involved, in any way, with this joy today? Could you make some room...

A Story of the Simple and Great Hearing Aid

The other day, I ran around the house looking everywhere for my oldest son’s hearing aids. I checked the counter where we normally place...

The Saints, Anchored in Hope

The Feast of All Saints…reminds us that the goal of our existence is not death, it is paradise! The apostle John writes, “It does...

Harvest Moon

I have always loved the harvest moon. In my two-stoplight hometown, it was always a big event. The rising of this enormous, orange moon...

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