Musings

By Sean Dietrich “Will the room please settle down before the dance begins?!” says Gary to the elderly crowd in the nursing home cafeteria. “Simmer down, please!” Gary is an old man with a saxophone dangling from his neck. He speaks over a microphone, addressing old folks who are all wearing...

By Lauren Catanese Life is like a song. A melodic tune that carries with it all kinds of notes and inflections, pauses, rises & deeper hues. But also, just like your favorite song, life always keeps flowing. We are the witnesses to what is created and we feel the different...

By Kirk McCarley, At a recent Spinning class I lead, a participant greeted me with the question, “so Kirk are you going to put us through an arduous workout this morning?”  Following a chuckle and a moment of processing we moved into our hour long routine.  Curiously, throughout the next...

By Rick Moore, This is the story as it was told to me. In 1899, Malaky, her brothers David and Naif, along with their mom and dad, boarded a steamship heading from Byblos, Lebanon to New York City. Malaky was eleven, David was four, and Naif was one year old....

By Dave Holland “As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was...

By Lauren Catanese Have you taken a pause in your life recently? A good one; whatever moment you find yourself in you shift your focus from what your mind is thinking and pay attention to your senses. Looking around, what do you see, hear, smell, feel? And really take it...

By Rick Moore, My wife says she saw it in a dream. We had only been married a few months. It was the first, and one of the few times she has ever shared one of her dreams with me. She was in a pet shop the day before looking...

By Kirk McCarley, A certain billionaire set out to perform a social experiment.   Resigning himself several days beforehand to a state of being unkempt and dirty, he clad himself in a worn out jacket, threadbare jeans, shoes held together by duct tape, and seated his body against a downtown...

By Sean Dietrich Major League Baseball spring training started today. I sat on my porch, listening to a radio. And I was cheering. I mean genuinely cheering. The Atlanta Braves play the Tampa Bay Rays. The national anthem was played. The umpire used his time-ravaged voice to shout, “Play ball!” I...

By Myrna Conrad What does freedom of speech mean? We all have the ability to say or express whatever we want to in any country. However, there are varying degrees of repercussions and consequences within the legal system of various governments. In the U.S., the First Amendment addresses our rights,...