Opening Day . . . 2024
Hope springs eternal on Opening Day . . . at least in Baltimore!
All posts filed under: Monday Musings
Looking for solutions
We turn to Agatha Christie to find solutions in a world that often seems confusing.
Seeing the world with new eyes
Losing your self-image can be both weird AND a chance to see the world with new eyes.
When the lines are never clear
Benjamin Labatut’s haunting tale of the complicated links between scientific discovery and destruction.
A lifetime of letting go
Birthday thoughts for March 4th: a good day not only to do something, but to let some things go.
Healing democracy’s heart
A post from 2015 while I’m on a winter retreat, about the healing of the heart of democracy
What hallows a space
We dwell in and move through spaces that take on meaning according to how we engage them.
Change begins with a question
Lindy Elkins-Tanton’s beautifully crafted book moves beyond memoir to suggest how to approach life.
I love the pithy proverb – Volume 9
The most recent volume of the short and to-the-point adages that capture truth in a few words.
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered”
Recent pieces by historians on democracy and politics as we enter an election year.
