Visits fulfill need for words, touch
The question posted by a Quora Digest’s reader was, “What’s the point of visiting patients in a nursing home with severe dementia or Alzheimer...
18 May 2022
Visits fulfill need for words, touch
The question posted by a Quora Digest’s reader was, “What’s the point of visiting patients in a nursing home with severe dementia or Alzheimer...
11 May 2022
Make practicing grace a habit
A woman stood patiently in the grocery check-out lane, practicing six feet of social distancing, when an elderly man cut in front of her, proceeded to...
04 May 2022
Keeping civility alive
A Texas friend wrote me about her experiences through the years of having lost things returned.
“I dropped my credit card at a gas pump and had i...
27 April 2022
Nothing gold can stay
Robert Frost was plagued by loss and grief and depression throughout his life. When he was 12, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving his family a t...
20 April 2022
Getting back in the zone
On Palm Sunday, Dottie and I kept the church nursery. Eight souls — ages 1 to 5 — were ours to tend for 90 minutes. Our youngest grandchild is 9, ...
13 April 2022
Shining like the sun
On March 18, something stupendous happened in Louisville, at the intersection of 4th and Walnut streets. Only one person saw it.
Thomas Merton had ...
06 April 2022
‘Fanlandia’ the perfect song
If we could teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, the perfect music and lyrics have already been written.
“Finlandia,” composed in 1899 b...
30 March 2022
Sowing light in the darkness
On Sept. 1, 1939, a solitary, troubled poet sat in a bar on 57th Street in New York City and began to write. All day he had heard and read reports on ...
23 March 2022
Practicing the Golden Rule
What would you do if, when you walked to your car in the parking lot of a big-box store, you found a handwritten note under the windshield wiper on th...
16 March 2022
Train bound to hope
The conductor in his yellow vest this time was neither selling nor punching tickets. His hands empty and raised high, he was shouting, “The train is...
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