Category: On Life & Love

This old photograph of my dad was taken of him at the helm of his 42′ Japanese Yawl, the ‘Morning Star’. Today would have marked his 101st birthday. It seems so strange to me to think of him at that age. You see, my dad died young, too young – he’s been gone from this

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like ‘struggle’. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly as he or she was made, exactly as they are here and now.” ~ Fred Rogers I love this wonderful quote by Fred Rogers. There lies a profound ideology within

Today started off easy. That’s the kind of Friday I like the most, the end of the work week withdrawing with dignity as the sweet anticipation of the weekend enters my brain. Since this grace was so well presented to me, I took it as that..a gift. So, I picked up my beach chair and

Which is more important, to give or to receive?  I have always heard to give is divine, but I believe different, I believe they are of equal importance and are interchangeable. How often have you thought to give to a loved one, to give to a friend or even give empathy to a stranger?  It’s

 I chose this photo of the Professor because I thought it so representative of the virtue Hope. By his posture at the water’s edge, arms extended reaching skyward unaware of the camera, he is demonstrating Hope. The building blocks of Faith, Hope and Charity are like a three-legged stool. They are the three great virtues of

“Our lives tick by like pendulum swings, poor little things, puppets on strings. But life is full of beautiful things… beautiful people, Dolittle people. Beautiful people… like you.”–‘Beautiful Things’ quote from Dr. Dolittle I believe by now I have fully exposed my ability to speak in the voice of my dog. So, it should come

I just returned from a 10-day family reunion where many generations were present. During that visit, I spent some time in conversation with a lovely person from an older generation. This means that the gal was in her nineties as I am racking up birthday digits more rapidly than I’d care to admit! The visit

I came across a compelling photo of my oldest granddaughter the other day sitting on the floor of her gym and the first word that came to mind was resilience. This is not such an odd thought to have, this child was made from material that when stretched will bounce back to its original shape.

There is a line from a favorite John Prine song that reads “I am old woman, named after my mother. My old man is another child that’s grown old.” Where is it certainly true that the Professor is a child at heart and even more so as he ages, the truest ring in the line

As I slept the other night, I was delivered a wonderful dream. Because everything in my wide-awake world has slowed, I guess my psyche has tempered to meet the rhythm. This dream carried me to a wonderful discovery… “I was walking down a road that went on forever. There were fields of green on each