We’ve begun to build our fall list from the leftovers of our summer one. Every season has its resolutions and its regrets.
Retrospective 2011
Narcissism goes back all the way to Adam and Eve who wanted to become gods, to have a glory all their own. This is the root of all human sin.
Retrospective 2010
Our faces should brighten when we see each other. To welcome each other in this way is not just a lost art in a hurried world, but a neglected responsibility.
Retrospective 2009
We have all of us only scratched the surface of this mystery. No poet or philosopher or prophet has fully plumbed its depth, understood its power, or known its joy.
Retrospective: 2008
At 14 she drove a cab barefoot along 5th Avenue. At 18 she was the swamp buggy queen. For 50 years she was a pastor’s wife, teaching Sunday School to teens and women and leaving secret notes in their Bibles. At 74 she is dying in my living room, remembering it all. Or none of it.
