Sometimes the archer reverses the roles. I’ve always been moved by the words of Kahlil Gibran, who compares the relationship between parents and children as bows and arrows in the hands of God. The parents are portrayed as the bow, but I think sometimes they are the arrows. Many years…
Are today’s influencers the modern version of a show-off? An influencer’s obituary appears all too often in the internet news. I confess I rarely know who the person was, and all too often, the age of the deceased is much too young. The entire “influencer” trend is something I can’t…
Musing about the personal mottos that guide us. When we were growing up, my mother would send us kids out the door to school with a parting phrase: Keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut. It was the midst of the baby boom, with classroom sizes unheard…