How we live at work, at home, and in our communities.
Like many, many others, I have long loved the work of children’s author and illustrator Tomie De Paola, and particularly how he includes insights into his Italian heritage and his...
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Which way should I go? That isn’t the only question human beings ask, but it is a common question, and given who I am and what I do, it is...
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“I’ve planted four trees in our yard this year.” Words, words, and more words…. so many words. Mostly we forget them, and perhaps we should. But some words stick, defining...
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I began with the sainted story of California. Like all of life, and the history of every people and every place, the story of California is a complex one, even...
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And the doors clanged shut. It is only grace that makes it be that I haven’t spent most of life in prison. The few times I have walked in, I...
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Yesterday I spoke at Friends University in Wichita, a school in the Quaker tradition. A glorious building was imagined, and then brought into being in the late 19th-century to house...
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