On the bulletin board above my desk is a card. I wrote it sometime mid-2022. It says, “Rather than saying ‘do this’, say ‘try this.’” I wrote it and then went on with my work, which includes saying things to people. I often tell people what to do. More accurately, I write and speak in […]

Rich Dixon is taking us upstream. +++ I promised a fun backstory. I wanted a cool-sounding Latin phrase. I asked a friend, principal of a big Catholic high school, if he knew someone who could help. “How about a priest who does translation work at The Vatican Library?” Yeah, that’ll work. So Exordio Somnii – […]

I wrote this long ago. The patient died shortly after I wrote it. But as recently as yesterday, I was by a bed, with a family and physician, asking God for wisdom. And so it’s worth thinking about again. +++ A patient was lying in a hospital bed. The people who can see inside bodies […]

I wrote this almost five years ago. I just found it. I think I’m not much more loving that I was then. +++ I was driving home Thursday afternoon. After a day on the road, I was thinking about what I would like to say to you if we were traveling together. You know the […]

God. It’s so easy to lose track. Of our plans, of our direction, of you. One fall, one fracture, one hospital stay, one cold, two bad nights of sleep and the lists we had and the projects we were working toward get lost. It’s hard to keep our quiet routines as our time is tied […]