Move In Day Reflections
2020, as everyone knows, has been the year of Zoom calls. Friends and peers of long years all too quickly became flickering faces on a screen. Zoom, a blessing from a curse, I suppose, did the opposite for Class 15. Rather than going from tangible to intangible, these calls began with intangible faces to tangible…
Urgent Does Not Always Mean Important
The great Yankees catcher and manager Yogi Berra once quipped about a popular restaurant “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” It’s an amusing contradiction but often our days seem to hold a similar, if less amusing, contradiction. See if you recognize this experience: “I had so much to do today that I didn’t get…
Finding Peace this Christmas Season
Peace on earth seems to be the goal of the season, or at least for some song lyrics, but what about peace in us? With the gifts, parties, ugly sweaters, decorating, bonus checks, wish lists, Santa photos, college application deadlines, and cheese dips it seems peace might be the first thing crowded out of the…