We fight who we hate. We hate who we fear. We fear who we don’t understand. We don’t understand who we don’t know. We don’t know who we turn away from. And, often times we turn away from anyone or anything that is different than us. Those who look different, speak a different language, practiceContinue reading “Make peace”
Category Archives: Patience
Who is my neighbor?
If you were fortunate enough like I was, you grew up with the simple and profound warmth of Mister Rogers’ neighborhood. Slowly and predictably he would slip into his house shoes and signature button up sweater, look straight into the living rooms across America, and drop truth bombs about knowing your identity, loving your neighbor,Continue reading “Who is my neighbor?”
Now what?
Every year we experience this no-man’s land in time between Christmas and the New Year. We have months of build up to the holidays with shopping, parties, lights, and family time, and in one glorious day the wrapping paper gets shredded, Christmas dinner gets devoured, and when it’s all over we look around and think….nowContinue reading “Now what?”
Expectations: Pt 1
March 21, 2015. The day lives in infamy in our household. My wife and kids remember it with full range of emotions; trauma and joy, confusion and relief. It was in a span of a few hours that afternoon that I had my own near-death experience. My family remembers it well. We rented a minivanContinue reading “Expectations: Pt 1”
#Lucha
Since our kids were young, at the start of every new year we sit together and celebrate personal victories and/or lessons learned from the past year, as well as set intentions and goals for the next. Part of that tradition is to select a “word for the year” that will serve as somewhat a themeContinue reading “#Lucha”
One Love One Voice 