An Interesting Question at a Baby Shower
I do not get invited to many baby showers. Before last month I do not think that I had ever been to a baby shower. Is it something about me, or is it just a cultural thing? Whatever, I was delighted when my wife announced that a couple of dear friends decided that the...
Joy In Practice, Part II
Over the years I have had some strange dreams. In one recurrent dream I am back in high school playing football. It is not like the old days when I was an All Star. Despite the fact that I feel that I am at least as good as the other guys, even though I am in my...
A Request That Got Me Thinking About How We Practice
Recently my 97 year old father was readmitted to his local hospital in North Carolina with another episode of CHF and aspiration pneumonia. He was discharged to the rehab facility at his life care community on a Monday. My sister from Birmingham drove over and spent...
Between Is and Ought
I have been reading/listening to Martin Buber’s classic work I and Thou (Ich und Du). I was encouraged to returned to this difficult book after several years by Ezra Klein’s podcast of a conversation with Jaron Lanier, one of the pioneers of virtual reality and the...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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