On the Praise of Beautiful Women
“Wow, look at that! That’s what I call a beautiful flag bearer! We are having so many of them tonight.” “Wait until you see the blonde holding the flag of […]
Category Archives: Spirituality for the Rest of Us
Running Across Life and Death
From 2005-2008, my family and I called the city of Vancouver home while I was studying at Regent College. One of the things I miss about Vancouver is, perhaps surprisingly, […]
Amature Lovers and Remembered People
Cockroaches big enough to be ridden by small jockeys squirmed across the floor, the smell of urine and alcohol hung in the air, and everything seemed to be caked with […]
The Rewards of Travel
Why do we travel? What do we hope to find in foreign lands? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, like many young aristocrats of his generation, set out to travel, and as […]
Encountering Beauty
When I am at a party with old friends, or am caught by a song when I enter a store, or when in a busy day I somehow lift my […]
The Power of a Click
There seem to be moments, every now and then, which grab us. An idea pops up in our mind, and it shines so bright and obvious that we wonder why […]
A Hole in the Fence that Became a Door
A year ago I rented a small home with a fence filled with woody knots, some of which were knocked out leaving perfectly oval holes. There was nothing unusual about […]
Technology… Interrupted
Hardly a day passes, it seems, without some article appearing that bemoans how distracted we have become with our over-reliance on technological gadgetry, our inability to turn our devices off, […]
The Open Arms of Suffering
Francisco Goya was a subversive man. Much acquainted with suffering, Goya had an instinct for the black side of life – he has paintings called Yard with Lunatics and Saturn […]
The Blank Menu
The waiter looked confused. He shuffled the menus in his hand from left to right, then put one in the middle, then rechecked them again. “Why don’t you just give […]
Wondering Fair 