During the day it is hard to remember that all the stars in the sky are out there all the time, even when I am too blinded by the sun to see them. Barbara Brown Taylor There is a constancy to light and dark, like sunlight at the depth of an ocean ...

Pilgrimage: 1. a journey of a pilgrim especially one to a shrine or a sacred place; 2 : the course of life on earth A few years ago, I bought Paul Elie's The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, mainly because I have been trou...

The future has an ancient heart. Carlo Levi Cheryl Strayed’s tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugarfell into my hands at a bookstore years ago. I had just moved to a different part of the country. I knew no one. I had l...

We might feel that somehow we should try to eradicate these feelings of pleasure and pain, loss, and gain, praise and blame, fame and disgrace. A more practical approach would be to get to know them, see how they hook us, see how they color our perce...