This has been quite a year for many of us as we individually and collectively emerged out of (or into a new phase) of the Pandemic. There have been stories and events that left us sad and frustrated (like the invasion…
Like some of you I am glad to see that the latest international climate meeting concluding in Egypt (on November 20) is now receiving some attention by media here in the US. I have a degree in energy and climate…
Several years ago I was in the South Street Sea Port district of southern Manhattan and I walked by a strange sign posted about 9 feet up on the outside wall of a restaurant. The sign had a red line…
Many years ago when I was on sabbatical I attended the State of the Planet conference at Columbia University in New York City. The gathering was convened by the well-known economist and scholar Jeffrey Sachs, whose work influenced theUN’s Millennium Development…
Several people have asked me about our policies regarding COVID. Currently the cases of the latest variant are increasing in the Boston area. Given the number of local people who travel between here and Europe and Southeast Asia, we have…
Imagine for a moment that all commercial media outlets in the United States are shut down summarily by our government. Both CNN and Fox News go dark and almost every newspaper is prevented from going to press. And then imagine that the…
Sometimes our humanity is brought out by times of extremity. That appears to be the case right now all over Europe and all over the world. For example, the BBC had a report yesterday about the organized effort by people…
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. ~ Desiderius Erasmus I am not sure how many of you have driven by the church at night over the last day or so. Those of you who have no doubt…
Like most of us I’ve been monitoring the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, WI. This afternoon the jury released their verdict finding the now 18-year-old Rittenhouse innocent of all five charges by virtue of self-defense. This included a charge…
Over the last many years I have developed an odd ritual that helps me to put things into perspective. Sometimes we choose rituals; other times they emerge by accident, or by serendipity. My ritual involves a rumpled newspaper clipping featuring…
