On Saint Patrick’s Day, reader Liz Wessel has created a mandala to help our celebration. To learn more about mandalas, read her meditation on Monday, March 19.   

I have to admit that eating was a utilitarian event for me prior to my 2 year old son, Luke, entering into the world. What was once an “in and out” activity has now been replaced with extended hand washing (and drying), coloring, matchbox car driving, and balloon picking extravaganzas, only to culminate with the…

When we offer loving presence, we become lanterns lighting the pathway to God’s Love. And a way out for those who are suffering.

This positive Love is the thing of greatest value. It is imbedded in the resonant music that vibrates through the best relationships we find with each other, whether we are sick or not. This positive and perpetual well spring of Love is the energy underlying the best people care and the best patient care. It…

Fortunately, flowers aren’t interested in the calendar. They listen to another song. Anxious to enter this world, the daffodils in our garden aren’t waiting for March 21 or the Vernal Equinox. One of them is inching her face out of her green wrapping like a turtle sneaking a peek from underneath the shell that is…

What is it like to live a now where every tick of the clock points not to the future or the past but only to the present? It’s a good thing for us to learn since right now is all we have.

Come to think of it, the principle of self-discovery applies to idea formation as well as jokes. We’ve all heard people say cynically about someone else, “Lets’ make him (or her) think it’s their idea.” The truth is, we all feel this way. That is why good leadership requires giving people the chance for self…