I filmed this video of Congressman John Lewis speaking at http://www.thekingcenter.org/The King Center on the topic of gun violence last Wednesday. When I woke up that morning I had absolutely no idea that I’d be in a room hearing this Great American Hero speaking only a few days after leading the historic sit-in on the […]
Daily Life
Mega Millions Prayer for Office Pools
O’ Heavenly Father (Mother, Source of Being, Beneficent One, Bestower of Blessings): Over the years each of us has known Your Kindness and Generosity in Myriad Ways! Each of us has been sustained and uplifted by Your Grace and Compassion! You have been our Rock and Redeemer! When we have faltered You have Steadied our […]
Life Lessons, Monday, 4/11/16
The past is only the past until it suddenly, unexpectedly, and undeniably comes crashing into the present. Download time matters. The universe is a strange and absurd canvas upon which we paint the human experience. (3 cont’d…) either as an imitation of Monet or Pollock. The unimaginable is sometimes best left unimaginable. There’s the day […]
Life Lessons, 4/9/16, Memphis Airport
Don’t worry. When it’s long passed time to replace your “camelbak” water bottle, but you continue to forget to do so, you will conveniently leave it somewhere, likely a bathroom stall. Several times the Torah mentions that a particular experience lasted 40 days. I used to think that basically meant, “a long time.” Now I […]
Life Lessons, 4/8/16 from Atlanta to Memphis
Airports– one of the few public spaces where it’s not only appropriate but appreciated when people direct you toward your baggage. Airplanes– designed to fulfill a tremendous human need but done so in a way that denies or disregards pretty much every other human need in the process. Why is it so comforting to be […]
Life Lessons, 4/7/16
1. Vanity is looking in the mirror and seeing everything but what’s actually there. 2. Those who think life would be better without stormy days have to explain why human beings seem inescapably drawn to making it rain. 3. Music and play are probably the two most universal of languages. 4. Existence and every […]