To the Congress and President, on the occasion of Memorial Day 2017 … that these dead shall not have died in vain. Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. At the end of the movie Saving Private Ryan, as Captain Read more »
Martin Luther King Day, 2017
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King Jr. I write on what would be Martin Luther King Jr.’s 88th birthday, five days before Donald Trump is to be sworn Read more »
Memorial Day, 2016
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address We the people Read more »
Martin Luther King Day, 2016
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ Martin Luther King, Read more »
Thanksgiving, 2015
Start Close in … David Whyte I am most thankful for the breath of life, for without it I am nothing … reminded by my very own breath of those who no longer breath … those whose Read more »
Memorial Day, 2015
… that these dead shall not have died in vain. … Abraham Lincoln Rita and I had the pleasure last month to spend a few days in Boston, the cradle of Liberty. One of the places we Read more »
Thanksgiving, 2014
Thanksgiving … A time of faith I want to write about faith. About the faith of the Pilgrims that first Thanksgiving. A faith strong enough to take them to the New World and see them through that Read more »
Independence Day, 2014
These are the times that try men’s souls. — Thomas Paine, January 1776 Six months after Thomas Paine’s Common Sense brought these words to the American public, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and 53 other founders Read more »
Martin Luther King Day, 2014
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Martin Luther King Letters from a Read more »
Nelson Mandela
What must it take for a man to fight for freedom with the commitment and courage Nelson Mandela showed … and … then … after 27 years in prison … forgive his oppressors? Truly forgive them. Not Read more »