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The Cat and the Crow

Dear friends, no great mosaic of beauty was ever built without an overall design. If our lives are to become a mosaic of beauty, it is never too late starting with the pieces most familiar to oneself.
John Lewis

In Memory of John Lewis

The tributes to the late John Lewis offer a chance to re-examine our moral values and civic obligations.

To Greet the Day

My fourth collection of poems, "Interbeing," will be available this fall from Wipf & Stock publishers.

July 4: Personal freedom and personal responsibility

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The endless debate between gun-rights advocates and the need for addressing the senseless violence in our country is a disconnect between ideas of personal freedom and personal responsibility. The violence in American streets and in our schools will not be solved by arming teachers in the classroom.

Elder Wisdom: The sacredness of our secular lives

Too many people still think of the secular and the sacred as separate categories. We can make distinctions, but real separation is misleading. We live in one interlinked world.