Thirty Years of Marriage
Some celebrations are better done in quiet. I don’t mean as in keeping them a secret–I mean as in keeping the voice down, much as you do when you enter a sanctuary. Pasts are sanctuaries of a kind,...
View ArticleHow to Pray
The disciples wondered how to pray, and asked Jesus to teach them. The gospel of Matthew records the version of Jesus’ reply we know as The Lord’s Prayer. Simple, direct, covers all the bases;...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on The Art of Conversation
So Friday night I got together with a few friends for intentional conversation, and the topic was…well, conversation. We asked questions like, “If you’ve just had a great conversation with someone,...
View ArticleMarriage and Aesthetic Unity
When I typed the title of this post, I had to reconsider. Really? Marriage and aesthetic unity? What I mean by aesthetic unity as in what emerges from a strong work of art or a successful theatre...
View ArticleActing 101: For All of Us
Here’s what actors do, in one way or another. Imaginatively, they work to enter the experience of a person, a character, imagining circumstances, beliefs, thought-life, sensory preferences, histories...
View Article100 Things I Know #3 – Sacrifice (Somehow) Is At The Heart of Love
Love is the pursuit of the highest good of and for the other. (It was Thomas Merton’s work that first gave me these words.) This must necessarily come into conflict with our own desires and pursuits....
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