Its important we remember...Kristallnacht, 1938... Every day a tree lives its dying. / Inside its vast shell, its cells transform / in the same moment its leaves are drinking up sun. / It doesn’t [...]
Last year, I had the rare privilege of visiting Hong Kong and Macau. The children were magnificent in beauty and presence. The people I met were gentle, enormously hospitable, and kind. This same [...]
Twenty years ago this last week, January 4 through January 10, 1998, the city of Montreal was hit by a massive ice storm, a true tempest, and all stopped for several days. .... In an unexpected [...]
I’m smack in the middle of a wonderful holiday, and I love it. After all, it’s Chanukah, the festival of light. How can one not fall in love with a holiday that contains every imaginable strategy [...]
Recently, I came across a piece “of indispensable life lessons” I wrote to myself eighteen years back and acquired the long and hard way. Re-reading it now, it has me realize ...
I still marvel at an encounter of swimming with this beautiful greenback turtle somewhere in The Turks and Caicos Islands. It was unexpected as I snorkeled and it was just me and her alone but in [...]
Something about turtles and being in the presence of the magic of turtle nests on a Florida beach is a heart send to me each summer. All of it glistening by moonlight and creating stories…
God has a lamp and human kindness lights the way. At the time, I really didn’t give much thought to any of these kind moments that I found or that had found me.
