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Medicine as Sacred Practice
There is more than can be imagined….
Riding the Currents
Faith, Hope, and Love All
The Levitation of Grief
It is grief’s levitational force, rather than its heaviness, that draws us to wholeness
Boomerangs, Broodlings and Bigs
Boomerangs, Broodlings and Bigs—life is messier than we anticipated after making it through the early years of parenting….
The Miracle of Us
Back in medical school, I asked a friend how much he thought our understandings of ourselves were related to the actual physical bodies we inhabited.
Memories, Mementos and Inheritance
In this season of loss and remembrance, so many people are sharing stories of when they last gathered with loved ones, traveled or felt a freedom in connection. More poignantly, there is story after story…
Family Gardens
I just picked another day’s bounty of beautiful tomatoes. As I did, laughing, I thought of how similar our garden is to our efforts at parenting. At first glance, you see that red, juicy collection in my kitchen. Different varieties, all healthy and just right–a tomato’s tomato.
COVID-19, Culture and Christian Ethics
Faith, not Fear! Love your Neighbor! Freedom of Church and State! Individual rights and liberty! These sound bites—or scream bites—are proclaimed at protests, across social media and in political campaigns…
Omissions, Commissions and Admissions
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor. St. Ignatius of Loyola I can still feel the sensation of the padded kneeler dropping just a bit to the floor as I placed…
There is more than can be imagined….