A Mayan Teacher in Pittsburgh

A Mayan teacher from the Yucatan, Ac Tah, was in Pittsburgh last week. In preparation for the Mayan New Age transition which is to occur in 2012, he was on a tour of the United States to hold ceremonies and talks to share the wisdom of his ancestors. In the session,...

Faithful Teachers Till and Beyond the End

Friends from Texas invited me to attend a memorial for their mother, a retired school principal, who had died a few months earlier. If they gave me details, I didn’t note them, only that the service would be at the Heinz Chapel on the U. of Pittsburgh campus on Friday...

Mbali and Me

Mbali came into my life three years ago and we have meet for a half hour once a week, most weeks since then.  She lives in South Africa, which, according to Google is 8,272 miles, (as the crow flies), from my home in Pittsburgh. We refer to each other as “Net...

God Helps Those

“God helps those who help themselves,” my father used to say, with disdain in his voice for those who sat on their own hands, praying and waiting for miracles. Growing up in a Midwestern farm family, he had learned that, for the harvest, the work of tilling and...

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

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