Monday was my father-in-law’s 87th birthday. We celebrated with him by visiting his and my mother-in-law’s graves, and decorating them with a little Christmas arrangement. They both loved and celebrated Christmas in a special way, as did my mother. There is an array of special memories that haunt me and my wife as we dash […]
Blessings
Most Blessed
Last Wednesday, when I would normally be putting the finishing touches on my weekly post, I was instead participating in a memorial service for Harold Shehan, a man I have grown to love and admire over the last three years. In the clubhouse of the country club where he lived for much of his later […]
On His Own Terms
He is world-famous, rich, successful, said by many to be the best ever at the position he played. He continued in his superlative achievements unabated for almost two decades. Still at the top of his class, he finally decided to end his career. One would think that he could make that decision and announce it […]
A Season of Fullness
The smell is unique – gentle decay of a natural, wholesome sort rather than morbid. The skies are an honest blue, deep and clear. The crunch of acorns and leaves underfoot betrays all but the most careful movement. It involves a slow disrobing of a revelatory sort rather than sensual. It is a time of […]