Though not a Christian Scientist, I've enjoyed the Monitor's articles frequently enough that I like to follow their RSS feeds to see what their take is on situations.

This article captured me for its subtitle, and scanning down through its words I came across this quote that embodies what I've learned so deeply in these past few years: "...the message God imparts to human consciousness is 'Remember that you – and everyone else – are my spiritual image and likeness, actually...

This week on my way to work, I heard a Republican politician tell a journalist that with 9% unemployment, they were NOT going to agree to raise taxes to avoid raising the debt ceiling. Do they think the taxes would be leveraged on the unemployed?

I have not heard about any tax increase, only a revenue increase from REMOVE tax BREAKs from those with incomes in our highest 3% economic level. Those people are NOT unemployed, and they are not going to stop creating jobs, or take away jobs...

We didn't know each other well. He was 21 when he married Mom, and learned from her rooting around for his birth certificate (needed for his service with the National Guard) that his Mom was actually his aunt. (Seems Grandma never found just the right time to tell him her sister had died when he was just six months old, and his dad wasn't equipped to care for his new son.)

Maybe learning he was adopted made it easier to consent to letting Mom have her way in adopting me, after they'd...

Bigun and I were out for our Saturday morning walk around the neighborhood when we saw a cluster of crows fly across our path, squawking and cawing like banshees. We stood and watched as they tumbled to the ground about fifty yards away. One at their center trying to escape the others -- maybe seven in all, clustered around it and beating it with their wings and beaks.

"Hey," I shouted. "Stop that!" We trotted over, Bigun in the lead, anxious to get in on whatever...

Jackson Browne's lyrics hit the charts in '72, my sophomore year in high school, when the world took on new meanings in my life -- as they do all young at that age.

I've lost that fresh perspective, and as it started to slip away, the lyrics took on even greater meanings, broader and deeper. Truly, I have to wonder, as others have "woken from their dreams" of a better world, "is it too late for me"?

Because I still want a better world for all of us,...