Spirituality blog I wrote
I It’s a long drive. I made it once when moving from Miami to Tucson. It was the part that seemed to never end. While the drive is all on one road, Interstate 10, when making the trip across Texas, it seems like Texas goes forever! Indeed, driving from Houston… Read More »Holy Water
It was a relaxed Friday evening. We nibbled on fresh salsa and blue corn chips. Mojitos helped to cool the warm summer evening. It was a great way to get to know our next door neighbors. We’re new to our neighborhood, having arrived at the end of April. They moved… Read More »An Evening with the New Neighbors
Driving one evening in a part of town that was new to us, we decided to look for a particular restaurant that we heard was somewhere in the area. I drove and my partner used his cell phone to find the restaurant on a map. In a short time, he… Read More »Spirituality and a GPS
I finished the meeting with a sense of frustration. While I’ve been through this before, I found myself again amazed at the amount of time that was spent addressing non-critical details. The words of a former colleague came to mind. “Some people just major in minors.” In other words, there… Read More »On Being Here … Or Not
I had returned from running errands on Saturday afternoon. Settling in with a cool drink on a hot summer afternoon, I signed online to check email and the news. As I opened the web browser, a red banner announced: Amy Winehouse found dead. I remember first hearing Winehouse’s music a… Read More »Addiction versus a Balance Life
It’s been my guilty pleasure for the summer. Yes, a guilty pleasure: something a bit out of my mainstream that I’ve really enjoyed. I hated to see it end. It was the perfect thing for me to do before bed on these summer evenings. Over the last two months, I’ve… Read More »My Guilty Pleasure
Our actions, emotions, and thoughts are animated in and through the spiritual dimension that makes us human. It’s the vitality of the human spirit that seeks expression in the things we think, do, say, and feel. It’s common sense that the other dimensions of our lives need to be properly… Read More »Spirituality: It’s About the Way We Live
It was a familiar drive. Taking the exit from the freeway, I followed a heavily traveled street along the river for a few miles. I’d frequently pass barges carrying ore or other materials for the mills. I’d cross a small bridge and make a right turn over the rail road… Read More »Immigrant Roots Today
