Good morning. Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us that: To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty to find the best in others to leave the world a bit better whether [...]
In the spring of 1968, I was in the final months of my ministry to a small Unitarian church in Massachusetts. I was also a graduate student at Boston University — and the salary was minimal. I supplemented my income by working Sunday afternoons and a few evenings a week at an art museum in [...]
That little alien creature in the film, “E. T.,” brought millions to tears as he gazed up to the distant planets plaintively crying, “Home, home.” “Home” is one of those most evocative words in our language which, when we hear it, summons a surge of sounds, and sights, and smells, voices, places and feelings. Poets [...]