Solitude

Solitude

Far have I roamed from you. I return to your calm and your peace. Last week we wrote about the practice of silence; this week we look at solitude. The two are not the same although they work in tandem. Both can be practiced alone or in a crowd, the former context...
Noise/ Silence

Noise/ Silence

Noise shatters being. Silence knits being. Both ever present each day. Early one morning while working from home, I made a discovery. Better wording would be, I found something that I had lost. On this morning, I awakened, did a brief prayer, and did not turn on the...
Noise/ Silence

Improvisations on the Journal

Stillness. Thoughts to record. Discovery. Divine, self, others. Stillness. Summer is here and the rhythm of life is slower; reflection may come readily. Get yourself a notebook that you like; one that invites you to put something in it. Or create a new “journal”...
DadSpeak, Father’s Day, June 2021

DadSpeak, Father’s Day, June 2021

Our purpose this Father’s Day is to share the wisdom and humor of our father’s words while using the headings of an article listing the 10 characteristics of “great fathers.” We want real not ideal words from our wonderfully real dads. The quotes under the headings...
Noise/ Silence

The Flag and The People

In 1812, Britain was interfering with United States’ trade, kidnapping its military personnel to serve in the British navy and hindering westward expansion on land in this country. The United States, thirty-six years after the Revolutionary War in 1776, declared war...