Let speeches fall silent

Let speeches fall silent and platitudes cease from hawkers of violence they brand as “peace.” Let people who suffer find places to speak, and…

All are welcome

Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn…

Life is not possible

Life is not possible without an opening toward the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos. Once contact with the transcendent…

There is only one world

In belonging to a landscape, one feels a rightness, at-homeness, a knitting of self and world. This condition of clarity and focus, this being…

The very design

The very design of the suburbs inhibited the gathering of citizens who might want to mount a protest. Instead of broad parks at the…

A merrier world

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If…

The fool

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Touchstone in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It