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Reflections from my therapist: ‘Now wait a minute,’ you’re going to say. ‘These are stories, not history. What I want to know is, when and how did the events Luke described in his ‘autobiography’ actually take place?’ As Luke’s therapist, I am paid to be concerned for his mental health and have asked myself that… — read more

If you miss an opportunity to share with someone your kindness, that person is going to live their life without that act of quotidian love, which is as powerful as anything grandiose, it adds happiness for that person and the overall happiness of the world, one love at a time. I had an opportunity to… — read more

Part I My story is not my own. I lived it. God designed it. With his divine architecture he crafted my life, a dream, and a ‘story’, which if you are here you have already read. I felt everything like a clock that had been wound up and released like clockwork. There’s no way I… — read more

I go to a support group every week, have been for years, same people, same problems. I am struck by how entrenched we are with the particularities of our mental illnesses. I feel like we are unable to outthink the issues that consume us every week, and every week is another variation along the same… — read more

I take what’s mine, then take some more It rains, it pours, it rains, it pours —— Today it was pouring rain in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and I came across something horrific that could be considered urgent, timely, and pressing, all at once, requiring action right now… I saw a homeless man on the side… — read more

= ‘Sacrifice | Botched’: This is an excerpt from a text that captures how sacrifices in the Iraq War got botched. It could serve as a metaphor and a context to what happened yesterday when the United States of America dropped a bomb on Iran… Sacrifice is never the way. The way is nonviolent. If… — read more

The world has been imagined. We have come together. The sacrifice has been monumental. But we have finally arrived. Rejoice. The world has been filled with pain, but we are moving towards the end of that pain. Each of us and all that came before is God. God is in all of us. He is… — read more

Our nation is made up of a powerful citizenry that is heroic in more ways than one, each of us a hero in our own right. President Donald Trump highlighted and celebrated some examples of legendary American individuals, who deserved the standing ovation they received–even on the liberal side of the aisle they earned their… — read more

For the people who are waiting for the world to begin, I am sorry it is taking so slow, I am impatient too. How do we launch WalkforWorld in all its manifestations without MONEY? The time is ticking. It is indeed an urgent, timely, and pressing matter. The answer is we can’t. But the potential… — read more

A human being who is beautiful, true, and good will never be replaced by artificial intelligence. A man or woman is a social fact shaped by inexhaustible personal and interpersonal complexity that is more complex than anything that a computer can artificially generate. Love is a fact that a computer cannot calculate. Art, music, theater,… — read more

Just because we are mired in a world that we see from our limited perspective, from our mortality, from a “something” that is deeply ambiguous, we can still try to look beyond our social condition as it is today and imagine the future that is made up of a beautiful “everything”. We will have to… — read more