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“We Before Me … “

Life's lessons can be found anywhere, even in a busy, after-school McDonald's, and a girl's jacket with the instruction to live "we before me," an excellent ideal worth striving for.

The secular and the sacred

In my writing I have often tried to point to a closer relationship between what we think of as the secular and the sacred. An intimate connection between them is not arbitrary or insignificant. In the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching we are told that the invisible ultimate is present in its everyday manifestations.

An excerpt from “Taking a Long Road Home”

Here is a brief passage from my 2011 memoir "Taking a Long Road Home." Let it be an introduction to my lengthy writing career -- two novels, five books on aging and elderhood, assorted volumes on religion, ethics, and contemporary society, a…