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As Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11 in 1963, astronaut Mike Collins orbited the moon alone while his co-explorers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin famously landed, walked and hopped

Most of us keep mementos, keepsakes that we cherish, often in the form of photographs. They can be in a gold locket we wear around our neck. They can be in an ornate silver frame on a dresser. When we look at them, we think about

It was the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Beads of all colors – red, orange, yellow, green, blue. Long frizzy hair on girls and boys, men and women. Tie-dyed shirts and dresses. Bell bottoms.  Drugs, folk songs, rock and roll. Sexual liberation. Psychedelic colors

Butterflies, dragonflies, katydids, hummingbirds, ladybugs. Translucence; gossamer wings. Translucence breathes between the lines as Luke’s tells the story of Jesus’ appearance to the disciples after his resurrection; a gauzy presence; earthly and real, yet unearthly and beyond laws of space, gravity and time. While

They took each other’s arms and started to walk. Arm in arm they crossed the Alabama River on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.  The Selma civil rights march, which took place 53 years ago this month. Just as Moses lifted up

_____ A married couple took in a homeless woman, and instead of showing gratitude, the woman turned them into Child Protective Services, accusing the parents of neglect, starvation and other abuses of their seven adopted, special-needs children. A family took a young man named

A woman stands in the front hall of her house.  Crying, she says to her son who is on his way out the door that he is the best son one could ever want and that she will always love

Hulu’s original series The Path takes us into the life of a spiritual community that holds at its center the vision of a ladder and challenges individuals to climb the rungs to get closer to what they call the Light. And he said

Who are you? Who, who, who, who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who?   In their classic song, The Who ask an essential question for