ALL DRESSED UP
Live long enough and the event you’ve attended most often in life will be a funeral. The emotions we feel while attending one give a clue to what was special about the person. When that person is a close family member, finding the words can be difficult. Then, a memory will suffice.
FLOWER OF BOZEMAN
Do you ever have your head in the clouds? It could be the feeling of being untethered, or just the thin air but lofty thoughts abound up there.
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We glance over the ordinary, expecting to see what we’ve always seen. But when an ordinary event is seen under extraordinary circumstances, the impression can be awe-inspiring. One night, while attending the American Wilderness Leadership School in the Gros Ventre Wilderness of Wyoming, I looked up. The altitude enhanced clarity of the western sky forever changed my view of the stars.
PASSED (for Todd)
I attended a funeral yesterday, a familiar ritual that reminds us of our unfailing vulnerability. A funeral reminds us of priorities and realigns our view of ourselves and our relationships with others. I attended a funeral yesterday. It was a good ache.
MEETING OF MINDS
Who are we? How did we get here? And, where are we going? If we fail to answer those questions, how can we succeed at anything else?
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There is very little that we truly know, and even less that we understand. What we know is all we have. Understanding is all we can hope for. Before knowing and understanding, there is warmth – a fire in each of us that we graciously share.
HE WHO WIELDS THE KNIFE
What can you say to a son who aspires to care for others, especially when those others are least able to care for themselves? Eventually, all of us run out of options. Then, we are left with one choice – to submit and entrust the outcome to another. When the circumstances involve risks to our most precious possession, our life; a threshold of intimacy is crossed that a relative few practitioners of medicine experience.
STORIED LANDSCAPE
Grand vistas are seductive. They fill our plates with more than we can imagine and take us to the horizon. But vistas come in different sizes. Those that are less grand may surprise us with their ability to tell a story that we have always known . . . but never listened to.
STORIED LANDSCAPE
