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Renewable optimism
“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.” ~Barbara Kingsolver Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? For more content and social media sharing options, please visit the home page.
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Speak for yourself
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Mending
“How quick we are to find fault in others. How few there are who have courage enough to admit their own faults or resolution enough to mend them.” ~Benjamin Franklin Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? Look for additional content and social media sharing options on the home page.
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Not again …
“Gun violence isn’t a Democrat or Republican problem. It’s an American problem, requiring an American solution.” ~DaShanne Stokes Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? Look for additional content and social media sharing options on the home page.
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Common goals
“There are still things worthy of our love. Honor, decency, courage, beauty, and truth. Tenderness, human empathy, and a sense of duty. A good society. And a commitment to human dignity. We need to teach others—in our individual relationships, in our classrooms and communities, in our book clubs and Bible studies, and in innumerable other settings—why those things are worthy of their attention, their loyalty, their love. One person doing it won’t make much of a difference; a lot of people doing it will create a culture.” ~Peter Wehner, in The Atlantic Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? Look for additional content and social media sharing options on…
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Sheltering Wright: My essay in NEWSWEEK
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright It’s hard to believe a full year has passed since the global pandemic reshaped the way we live every day. Last spring, when the monotony of living in lockdown set in, Doug and I decided to spend more time at our Wright home (the Carl Schultz house) in St. Joseph. Prior to the pandemic, we’d put a great deal of effort into renovating and upgrading the home and its surrounding property — but rarely took time to actually live in the place and enjoy the results of our labor. The pandemic motivated us to change that last year, and it inspired an essay…
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Gardening Wright
