These are unusual times, bringing with them unusual amounts of stress for many. So I thought I’d repost a version of a blog I wrote about the best way I’ve learned to reduce stress, and to find silence and peace in the midst…
Ed and I Walking in Silence Here are two of my favorite quotes about “silence,” which has been the topic of this week’s blogs: The first one offers a place for our soul to lie down and notice that the world is too full to talk…
Silent at the Cruz de Ferro on El Camino de Santiago Last week, my thirteen-year-old grandson asked me to help him write an argumentative essay. It was part of his homework in his now virtual classroom. I admit it. I had to…
What do Victor Hugo (French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, born in 1802), Aldous Huxley (English writer and philosopher, born in 1894) and Johnny Depp (American actor, singer, producer, and musician, born in 1963) have in common? Music expresses that which cannot…
# 634 in the German Mennonite songbook in the photo above is Ach Mein Herr Jesu, Wenn Ich Dich Nicht Hätte. It was my father’s favorite hymn, and we sang it often as a family. When I hear it today, seventeen years after…