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“When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope.” — Phil Connors in Groundhog Day Every February 2 nd , Groundhog Day, I think not of the weather prediction, but of the movie, Groundhog Day and it’s enduring message.  Of course, I get a big kick our of Bill Murray who is brilliant in the movie. Groundhog Day as a movie has a cult following which includes a past minister who watches the movie with her husband and friends every year. What m

“I have come to love the thing I most wish had not happened.” — Stephen Colbert When Stephen Colbert said those words in a 2015 interview, the audience went silent. He was speaking about the tragedy that shaped his childhood — the loss of his father and two brothers in a plane crash. It’s hard to imagine loving such pain. Yet Colbert said that without the tragedy, he wouldn’t have become who he is. Somehow, heartbreak became... a portal, a doorway to something very big. I'm

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, courage to change the one I can, and wisdom to know that one is me . ...

"The wound is the place where the light enters you." Rumi, poet Some years ago, my brother, Steve, shot himself.  Steve never recovered...