beauty

Always look for the good in people, said Ignatius Loyola.  He said “be more eager to put a good interpretation on a neighbor’s statement than to condemn it.”  Needless to say, this isn’t always my instinctive response to what others say and do.  So I take to heart this advice from Anthony Bloom, an Orthodox [...]

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Two nights ago I witnessed an annual event which has become one of my favorite events of the entire year: the Christmas pageant at my daughters’ school. We have the best music teacher ever there, and what she gets the children to do is magnificent. Last year, it was drumming modeled after the opening ceremonies [...]

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