Category: Uncategorized

I don’t know if this is premature, but it feels like the health crisis is coming to a close. T.S. Eliot tells us, in his poem “The Wasteland”, that “April is the cruelest month.” I feel the pain of it, because we don’t know whether the crisis is over or we just have a temporary… Continue reading Health Crisis Spiritual Retreat

I’ve been musing over humility and pride. By “pride” I mean something positive, like self-esteem. I believe that it’s good to be proud of who we are. Pride is not arrogance. Arrogance is egotism. It’s thinking we’re better than others. I dislike false humility. Often when I hear people talk about it, they’re talking about… Continue reading Humility = Pride

Season’s greetings to all of you out there!  I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a good person.  The deeper I think about this, the less I feel I know.  I think we all have an intuitive sense of what it means, but none of us really knows for sure.  I… Continue reading Muddling Through Being Good