by JAC | Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. Willa Cather “You think...
by JAC | May 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The...
by JAC | Apr 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
“The world…is full of resurrections… Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it – the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its...
by JAC | Apr 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
“I am not inclined to apologize for my anxieties because I have lived with them long enough to respect them…” E.B. White You are so creative. Feisty, really, in your imaginative abilities. No matter what—you come back swinging. Into the unknown: the...
by JAC | Mar 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
What separates each one of us from all the beasts and bugs and birds? Well they have feathers, fur and wings but we have words, and words, and words. Karla Kuskin, children’s poet “I don’t know…I’m just not feeling like myself...
by JAC | Mar 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hope inspires the good to reveal itself. Attributed to Emily Dickinson The theme of smallness keeps presenting itself to me lately. The Tiny Habits course I wrote about here started out with just the smallest steps towards the creation of a habit along with a small,...
