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“Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” — Karl Menninger This morning this truth jumped out from an old psychological guru. I was cleaning out books for the new year—pulling volumes from shelves, deciding what to keep, what to pass on, what still spoke and what had grown quiet. In the middle of that small ritual of sorting and letting go, I came across Karl Menninger again. His book Love Against Hate  stopped me. I sat down on the floor, ope

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl, famous psychiatrist and survivor of the Holocaust All of you in the Wenatchee Valley know what has been going on. In this blog, I'd like to offer a reflection that particularly leans on some wisdom I gleaned recently from one of my granddaughter's college entrance essays. Let's get started. (And thank you to those who have sent photos and videos). Here in our little berg

“To have purpose is to make a contribution — to be part of something bigger than yourself.” — Roy Baumeister I’ve been watching my husband, John, go through something that I think many people experience quietly but rarely talk about: the sudden disappearance of purpose after retirement. When John was practicing dentistry, he was utterly clear on his mission: to improve the quality of life of each person he had the opportunity to touch.  Dentistry was simply the doorway. What

“The practice of spirituality is a way of looking at a world where you're not alone.” — Rick Rubin, author of The Creative Act: A Way of...