Over the years, I’ve come to understand that healthcare is a function of eating wisely – also called eating ‘healthily’ – and regular exercise. That said, there are billions on this planet – too many children – who do not have the opportunity to eat healthily or to exercise on an over-priced machine. There is […]
Category Archives: Awe and Wonder
Anthropause
I learned two new words in 2020, anthropause and Anthropocene. Coined by a group of international researchers in a paper they collaboratively wrote in June 2020, anthropause means “a considerable global slowing of modern human activities, notably travel.” This is how this group of researchers characterize the international lockdown to control the spread of COVID-19. […]
As the New Year Dawns
In 2021 – our 11th year – we hope to corral the pandemic and turn our backs on the cultural and political discord that threatens to destroy the goodness that is inherent in each of us. It is in our DNA to do the right thing. We were born in original goodness. To turn our […]
Christmas Eve 1968
I was reminded this morning that on Christmas Eve in 1968, the Apollo 8 spacecraft with astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders entered orbit around the moon. They were the first humans to orbit a celestial body other than Earth. They were asked to send a Christmas Eve broadcast to Earth and advised […]
Merry Christmas
Christmas at Heart
I believe that Jesus has influenced and continues to influence more human beings than any person who has ever walked the Earth. His message of unconditional love and forgiveness was and is plain and simple. That is how he lived, simply: he loved unconditionally and forgave without questions. That is the example he set. That […]
The Faith of Job Garden
I have an idea. I call it the Faith of Job Garden… My objective is to re-ignite the direct-giving program my friends and I created in 2017 and operated through 2018 to support the Guepard Boxing Club in Cité Soleil [GBCCS]. During that time, we fed upwards of 300 Haitian children, three days each week. […]
You Got Faith?
I have come to define faith this way: Faith is the knowledge that something exists or something is true without proof, or that an event will occur in the absence of reason and logic. There is great strength in faith. It is one of the core messages in my 2012 novella The Sixth Day, and […]
Do Not Be Afraid
“The Lord is my shepherd… though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod and your staff give me strength, comfort, and courage… “ If Leonard Cohen is right – and I believe he is – this is the secret chord […]
Faith Amid Doubt… Lincoln Still Smiles
The American landscape has changed drastically since I played chip-up baseball with Johnny Senger, Ray “Ping” Connors, the Filio brothers, and a handful of other future big-leaguers from nearby neighborhoods on the vacant lot behind the swamp next to our house on West Housatonic Street. Kids don’t do that anymore. America has been far from […]