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Ownership





Today London. Yesterday, 9-11 and Columbine.

Mother Nature is the only one who commits random acts of violence.


I have to own London and all the rest.





Who else can I look to take responsibility for my family?









Priorities

A co-worker brought in an old movie from home that she’d thought I’d enjoy. For two weeks, it sat on my coffee table. While interested, it just wasn’t a priority for me. And as more days passed, I began to feel a sense of urgency to watch it – to ...

Dr. Kevorkian

Dr. Jack Kevorkian was released earlier this month, having spent eight years in jail at a cost in excess of four hundred thousand dollars for helping people who wanted to die to be able to do so with surety and dignity. I wonder if the agreement that was reached before ...

Gestures

My brother and I attended a Chicago Cubs baseball game a few weeks ago and part of the fun was watching the interaction between the players in the outfield and the fans sitting in the bleachers. Sometimes after the inning warm up, the left-fielder would throw a ball into the ...

Reminders

We transported my daughter's horse 1600 miles.  When we walked into the boarding stable, relaxing music was playing as well as messages on the tack board, stall assignment, feed schedule that spoke to sharing and being loving kindness. Does it take a reminder to be aware of the grace and ...

Who Has the Power?

As a society, we consistently speak as if we can teach, motivate, inspire, educate and empower other people. I wonder what it will take for us to understand that we can do none of these things? ...

Family





It has been pointed out that I take things in the world very seriously. I take them far more seriously than I have ever admitted.





We are all related. How is it that I should not take seriously any damage done in the world?








Family





Each morning, I hold seven billion souls in my heart in a place of loving kindness.
When I first attempted to do this, it seemed like so many people.
This miraculous phenomenon, available to each of us, took me seven years to master.




Amazingly enough, it feels just like the size of my family these days.