The most important lesson I have learned in the fifty years I have spent working toward the building of a better world is that the true work of social transformation starts within. It begins inside your own heart and mind, because the battleground of human transformation is really, more than any other thing, the struggle […]
Friendship
A Dazzling Dayton Dame
A “Dame” is a woman of refinement. While Carol Pohly and I celebrated my birthday last summer at First Watch at the Dayton Mall, we noticed a little boutique across the street called Simply Hyacinth. We decided to check it out and found some treasures we just couldn’t resist. I had no idea of the […]
Gifts from the Universe
Recently, I received three wonderful gifts from the Universe. About three weeks ago, while rearranging the books in my home, I found a book written by a former client. I hadn’t thought about Lucy (not her real name) for several years. Fingering through her book, a flood of memories surfaced. At the time I knew her, […]
Angels Among Us ~~ Barbara
Do you have a friend so trustworthy that you can safely share anything with them? Fortunately for me, Barbara showed up in my life in 1968 and filled the bill. When I met her, Barbara and her daughter worked in the church nursery caring for children so parents could attend worship. About three years later, […]
Angels Among Us ~~ Alice
Friends who have read my memoir and especially those who have accompanied me on my journey the past eight years of bringing my book into the world have been remarking about how just the right person has come along at every juncture in my life to take me to the next level. That, too, has […]
On Being Relational
“I’m here tonight because of hundreds, probably thousands of people who helped me.” ~Dave Letterman upon receiving the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. When I heard Dave Letterman acknowledge that he was successful because a lot of people helped him get there, my admiration for him expanded. Not that I disliked him before. I’m just […]
