Ways to handle holiday grief: avoid anticipatory grief, serve others, embrace a larger context, make it a time of memorial and mourning.
Category Archives: Christmas
ARGENTINA: Security concerns
On this Christmas day, I’m glowing with newfound faith in the goodness of my fellow human beings, no matter where I roam.
ARGENTINA: Security
On this Christmas day, I’m glowing with newfound faith in the goodness of my fellow human beings, no matter where I roam.
ARGENTINA: Dogs
Just watching the dogs of Argentina freed my soul.
CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas of 1965 was spent in Kfar Orah, Israel. It was an ordinary day, since everyone around me was Jewish. From the hill where I was staying, I could see Bethlehem. There was a star sitting directly above it, and I thought hmm, stars don’t move much in two thousand years; maybe that’s what theContinue reading “CHRISTMASES PAST”
WHAT BOOKS I’M GIFTING THIS CHRISTMAS
A list of reading pleasures, suitable for the gift-giving/reading time of year.
Christmas is just another day
In this dark season I dispense with Christmas and reflect in gratitude upon the invention of the light bulb.