Spring has really arrived in Toronto. This last weekend was a perfect celebration of this arrival. The sun was shining. The sky was blue. It was definitively above freezing. Only very small patches of snow still hide in the deepest shady corners. Snowbells and...

Seeing ourselves and our very brief flash of a life span in the context of deep time is one of those mysteries that truly stretch our ability to make sense of the experience of being a human. What to make of our brief blink of a life in the context of a universe that...

Hope is not optimism. That makes hope dependent on circumstances, something based in the external world. Instead, hope is a discipline, a commitment to keep on investing our time, effort, and energy in the quest to work towards “a better future” – in whatever...

The last few years of Zoom has made us all more aware of our workspaces, and even has us sometimes “fake” the background of the space we are working in. We know there is often an unseen, other side to the spaces we meet in virtually.  My own Zoom background is books –...

I am a book person. And I cannot remember when this has not been true for me. One of my early memories is sitting on the floor in my grandmother’s cool, dark hallway and paging through old books I pulled from a bookshelf. My work has always provided a reason for...