In this week’s blogs, our guest Kim Colegrove has inspired us by sharing her personal story about transforming grief and suffering into compassionate action. She ended her blog with, “If you feel inspired or motivated to activate your grief, here are some ideas.” She lists…
Our Former River Property – All that Remains is a Chimney In the coming weeks and months, my guests in our upcoming series on Choosing Compassion over Fear will be sharing their personal stories. My teacher Fr. Richard tells me that there are…
Front Patio of Our Desert Home In the northern hemisphere, fall is in the air. Our days are getting shorter. Low, slanting rays of sunlight are replacing the full-on beams of high summer. The lengthened shadows foretell the steady progression toward the darkness of winter. In nature, fall is a…
Us Being Focused In my last blog, I shared a true story about my parents’ extraordinary selfless service to leprosy patients in Paraguay, South America as an illustration of the Metta Center’s definition of true generosity: “True generosity … the act of recognizing the…
In Monday’s blog, I wrote about the extraordinary lives of two ordinary men: John R. Lewis and John R. Schmidt. I described their remarkable achievements, but never addressed the question: If these two men were ordinary but achieved extraordinary things, why aren’t the rest…
John R. Lewis 1940–2020 John Lewis was a politician and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia’s 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death on July 17, 2020 from pancreatic cancer. Lewis was one of the “Big Six” leaders who organized the 1963…