The Rose That Grew From Concrete Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's law is wrong it...

The Seine in Flood at Vetheuil, Claude Monet, 1881 Hello Everyone . . . Hoping all remains interesting and healthy where you are. Today’s...

I do not see how anyone can go very far . . . who is not ready to risk complete failure. - T. S. Eliot It would be fair to say I’m not at...

Girl Reading, Harold Knight, 1932, Harris Museum & Art Gallery Photographs that compel us never overpower or coerce; they attract us...

Children Swimming, Ivy Smith, 2000 Source: www.ivysmith.co.uk Hello Everyone: Vancouver, British Columbia recently found itself living...

Conor O'Leary, Irish Photgrapher, from series 'An Island Through a Fence.' Hello Everyone: Welcome back. Warm wishes to all of you - from...

SCAMPI, Wellington, New Zealand Hello Everyone: Hoping all is going well and you’re finding all sorts of ways to keep relational living,...

Hello Everyone: As you already know, the year of 2020 all happened. Way back when in March the world did not actually stop – it just felt...

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” - Voltaire Edvard Munch, Melancholy, 1891 Hello Everyone, We...

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people...

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. – Terry Tempest Williams UMMERTIME BLUES Since COVID-19 became...

The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and...

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. – Oscar Wilde As many of you know, I am the father of twin daughters. A week ago, the...

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change...

During this time of the coronavirus pandemic, we must stand together while standing apart. (Irish politician, 03/2020) I’m often asked...