Taking advantage of the moment
A mother’s example helps point the way at this moment in time when we can change our future.
Author: DJB
Saturday Soundtrack: David Grisman
The pulsating rhythms of E.M.D. opening the 1977 DGQ album made me a fan for life.
Weekly Reader: Thanks, Boz, for the memories
If you think you are judging others when you write, you’re wrong. You’re uncovering yourself – Thomas Boswell
Walk it like you talk it: Hope, joy, belief…and feet
Would we live with a generous, perspective if we believed that joy, wonder, and peace are what’s real?
Saturday Soundtrack: Margo Price
Price sings of Iranian arms sales, gentrification, the healthcare crisis, and more that’s not your standard country fare.
The Say Hey Kid turns 90
As my childhood hero turns 90, I’m celebrating his talent and life while processing what that number means for me.
Weekly Reader: Bearing witness
As humans we should bear witness to each other’s suffering. Darnella Frazier bore witness and changed history.
The practice of breakfast
My father’s morning practice of centering, and then cheerfully making breakfast, was the example I needed all along.
Saturday Soundtrack: John Pizzarelli
John Pizzarelli is a prime contemporary interpreter of the Great American Songbook and an amazing guitarist to boot.
Weekly Reader: The catcher was a spy
In the end, there are few men who find ways to live original lives. Moe Berg did that.
