Words from Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton and
Desmond Tutu

The Blessed Half-light of December
I paused to watch the yellow light spread caution across my living room. This gentle warning that darkness would soon arrive transformed a few brief moments into a timeless comforting event. The unexpected arrival of an old friend could not have changed my mood more quickly. With certainty the half light […]

Moving words from Howard Thurman and Thich Nhat Hanh

Carefully the leaves of autumn sprinkle down the tinny sound of little dyings […]

November is defined by Thanksgiving. In a blink of an eye we quickly move to a land beyond the brilliant colors of the maples and the vivid chartreuse of closed milk weed pods. Our consumer culture wants to move us even further, even faster. Thanksgiving too often is seen as that holiday that precedes ‘black […]