The great thing about jellybeans is that you never quite know what flavor you’re going to get. Even if you can recognize the difference between popcorn yellow, pineapple yellow and banana yellow, flavors combine to create taste sensations that you never could have quite imagined.
How do you invite variety and surprise into your life?
There are moments—perhaps in meditation or prayer or dance or song or stargazing— when we are privileged to step behind the veil of ordinary life and into contact with the Mystery.
When have you stepped behind the veil into a sense of wonder?
Sometimes we need a little help from our friends to lift us up to a place where we can get a clearer view on life.
Who has helped you to see something in a new way?
“Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without. ”
―William Sloane Coffin Jr.
What has been the most challenging form of diversity for you to embrace?
Our comfort and safety depends on the work of so many people whose efforts are often invisible to us: agricultural workers, power line repairers, people who maintain sewers…the list goes on and on.
Who would you like to thank for their work on this Labor Day?
