Inner Life

The inward consequences of paying attention—faith, meaning, memory, gratitude, mortality, hope, identity, belonging, and the formation of character.

5 Cents Worth

A few days after living through a brief season with almost no margin in my life, and just before I was to pick up my four-year-old granddaughter for a morning at the park, I backed my beautiful Toyota 4Runner straight into the trailer hitch of a parked truck. Hard. I was in a hurry. I

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Letting Go

The older I grow, the more grateful I become to live in a place that embraces all four seasons with equal conviction. Summer arrives full of confidence. It beckons us outdoors to linger a little longer beneath wide blue skies, to gather tomatoes still warm from the vine, to breathe deeply of basil and sun-warmed

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