Since I got my new com­puter up and run­ning, I’ve been redesign­ing and rewriting/editing my web­site. I’m get­ting close to the end of the process. It’s been quite a chore espe­cially since I’m using a new pro­gram to cre­ate it which I’m not real famil­iar with (not that I was that good with the old […]

Fall is a really beau­ti­ful time of year. The tem­per­a­tures are pleas­ant (I enjoy wear­ing a jacket and hat rather than being too hot), the leaves are beau­ti­ful, the har­vest con­tin­ues to come in from our gar­den, there’s a cer­tain mel­low­ness to life.
I feel that way about my own life also. I am in the autumn […]

I have just added busi­ness coach­ing to the menu of ser­vices I offer. I act as a sound­ing board or cat­a­lyst. Some com­pa­nies real­ize they have a prob­lem and don’t know how to tackle it them­selves. As an out­side, objec­tive per­son, I pro­vide hon­est, con­struc­tive feed­back and sug­ges­tions for han­dling sit­u­a­tions allow­ing you to […]

Every­thing is new and ever chang­ing. Every­thing is the same, time­less. How can we expe­ri­ence the excit­ing fresh­ness of life while cen­tered in eter­nity? That is the chal­lenge of life. We are eter­nal beings liv­ing in tem­po­rary bod­ies in a tem­po­rary world. Fresh, new oppor­tu­ni­ties present them­selves to us daily. We need to learn to […]

Yesterday’s blog got lost in cyber­space when I clicked on the wrong but­ton while try­ing to pub­lish it. My wife works sec­ond shift and often gets to bed around two. I’m a light sleeper, often wake up and some­times have dif­fi­culty get­ting back to sleep as I did last night. So, I got up did […]

I’ve been asked to get up early tomor­row morn­ing and go to the county build­ing to address the com­mis­sion regard­ing gay mar­riages. It seems they’re con­sid­er­ing pass­ing a res­o­lu­tion sup­port­ing a pro­posal that the state of Michi­gan pass a con­sti­tu­tional amend­ment out­law­ing gay mar­riages. There is already a state law on the books. What motive […]

Here in the Grand Rapids area we have had an inter­faith Thanks­giv­ing ser­vice the past cou­ple of years. It has been orga­nized by GRACE (Grand Rapids Area Cen­ter for Ecu­menism), the Inter­faith Dia­logue Asso­ci­a­tion and oth­ers. Last year, I par­tic­i­pated in it at a Con­ser­v­a­tive Jew­ish tem­ple. I played gui­tar with a Hindu group that […]

Today I spoke with my 79 year old mother on the phone. We talked for around two hours and the time passed quickly. She thought it was around an hour. It’s amaz­ing how much more pos­i­tive she’s become in the past ten years or so in spite of, or because of, deal­ing with two or […]

Days change, com­ing and going. New­ness is ever present. Each new day is an oppor­tu­nity to reap­praise our lives, to see what is work­ing and what is not. It’s good to give projects we under­take a fair chance to make it, to see if they bear fruit or not, to deter­mine if they are worth […]

I am more and more impressed with Ari­anna Huff­in­g­ton the more I learn about her. I enjoy what I read by and about her in Salon.com, what I hear on the news and now that she has with­drawn from the race for Cal­i­for­nia gov­er­nor. She’s not a spoiler like Ralph Nader, who I used to […]