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Reading is magical. Black marks on a white page can transport and transform us. I was skimming some black marks on a page recently when those marks formed into two words that stopped me: soul coma. Those two words transported me into an exploration of the meaning of both words…
I live in Texas. I see bumper stickers that say, “God Bless John Wayne.” They’re usually on pickup trucks with a Trump bumper sticker. John Wayne’s legacy lives on today, especially in our politics. Too many of our politicians are cast out of the John Wayne mold of opinionated…
Do you have too much drama in your life? Sometimes I feel like a playwright because I can create a drama that’s worthy of a Broadway play in my head. I can take the smallest conflict and blow it up into an imaginary production complete with characters and motivations.
What is the difference between a pilgrimage and a vacation? One is an outward journey. The other is an inward journey. A vacation is a journey of the mind. A pilgrimage is a journey of the heart. A vacation is a get-away-from. A pilgrimage is a get-closer-to.

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What’s holding you back? You may have the same reaction to that question that I had when it was asked by my manager in a performance review. My unspoken…
Do you run away from problems or toward them? It’s easy to avoid our problems. But problems are like bullies. They pursue us relentlessly and make our…
“I am not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I…
We’re at the end of Black History Month, 2023. There’s a move in large parts of the population to erase significant parts of Black history. What a…
Joe Biden and I are both 80. We are both going to have to listen to people in our culture tell us we are too old for big things in the next two years…
I have the honor of being part of a 15-month Narrative Change Project with the H.E.B. Foundation here in San Antonio. We are a cohort of 15 people who…
A friend recently recommended me to a journalist for an interview on aging. He told the interviewer, “He is very focused on keeping his mind lubricated…
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Stacking rocks is easy. Balancing rocks is hard. Stacking people is easy. Balancing people is hard. It took me about 30 minutes on the beach in Baja…
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