Category: Meditations

“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?

We humans dream of flying, of soaring like hawks on outstretched arms. But mostly we hop, rather than soar. We launch ourselves up, and promptly come back to earth. Perhaps these tiny moments of flight are just as glorious as the unattainable soaring, if only for the fact that we can actually make them happen.

What small victory will you celebrate today?

When we walk on a bridge or pier we see the “right side,” the side designed for traffic, the side meant to be exposed to the world. But what holds us up is the unseen underside, the structure that makes the rest possible.

What beliefs are so foundational for you that you rarely think about them?

This mailbox looks as if it’s been waiting for the mail to come for some time, with deliveries, perhaps, few and far between.

What have you waited and hoped for the longest?