A Note on Gratitude

Rural country

Happy Thanksgiving! I think this is a remarkable holiday because, unlike all the rest on the national level, we don’t celebrate a historic event or remember a specific person or group of people. Instead, Thanksgiving is really a holiday which celebrates a specific virtue, and that virtue is gratitude. There’s the old adage that goes … Read more

Holy Week

Jesus w/ Palms

Palm Sunday commences the week known as “holy week” in the Christian tradition. This is final week of the solemn period of Lent, but it is also as much about the very nature of humans as it is about the story of the death, resurrection and divinity of Jesus. During my lifetime, my devotion to … Read more

Drifting Into the Alternative Universe

A few weeks ago, I made a mistake of omission, which set off a chain of unforeseen events. It caused a lot of problems for my client as well as a few dozen unplanned hours of problem-solving for myself. Initially, it did not appear that there would be much of a disruption to the client’s … Read more