Last week, I wrote that freedom and forgiveness are pretty much joined at the hip. We all want freedom, but what exactly…
Freedom: A How-To
Posts Categorized: Love
From Fog to Light
A virtuoso emailed the other day: “I am reading parts of C.S. Lewis again, and came across this: ‘Virtue, even attempted virtue,…
Loving With Everything We’ve Got
We used to hear a lot about “repression.” That meant that if you limit the expression of your emotions, there would be…
Year-Round Gifts
The remnants of cast-off wrapping paper are off the rug and out of sight until next December. The gifts remain to remind us of the…
Finding Love on Third Street
A small plastic heart caught my eye on the way to work. I picked it up, thinking I’d give it to someone…
Virtues You Never Get Tired Of
Waiting to cross the street this week, I noticed a tattoo on the neck of the woman next to me. Crystal let me photograph…
Less Preference, More Peace
Almost everyone agrees that becoming more loving is good, but how do we put that into action? That’s what virtue is all about….
The Logic of Love
David Brooks, columnist and author of The Road to Character, gave the commencement speech at Dartmouth this year. It’s worth reading or…
Virtue Blossoms
In her poem, The Land, Vita Sackville-West wrote that “June is the month of weeds.” As we’re removing plants that take away…
Nobel Prize for Motherhood
My brother-in-law, Tom, emailed the family a memorable example of the meekness (the virtue that moderates anger) and love of his mother,…
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