Tag: life

A reflection on compassion, grief, and legacy—how small acts of kindness can make our memory a lasting blessing.

What shall we call such invisible states marking life’s transitional moments: dreamy to conscious, awake to asleep, Word to flesh, water to wine?

Life as an organic replicator seems as good a shorthand one as any, though even if a particular organism is incapable of replicating (some defect in its biology) that wouldn't make it not alive, would it?

We killed God out of our need for safety, control and power.

A generation or three ago, the word “awesome” meant something like “that which inspires awe.”

How often do we pass through life not knowing how we got here?

Here as well are the doorways of age 20 and 40 and 70 and (should we live so long) of ninety and beyond. Here at the end, is the final doorway – or, at least, the final doorway that we are able to see.