Thank you for your Sunday essay; I truly enjoyed it. I enjoyed your reflections on culture as something to be cultivated with care, intention, and love.
I think a lot about how everything is interconnected. Your words reminded me that every gesture of kindness, every loaf of bread shared, every bit of ivy pulled from a tree is part of a larger web. We shape the whole through what we choose to do with what’s right in front of us.
Sometimes it feels overwhelming to know how much needs healing in the world. But your essay was a beautiful reminder that the way forward isn’t always through grand solutions, but through small acts done with compassion.
I appreciated the invitation to live with more attentiveness and to take responsibility; not out of guilt, but from a place of love and kindness. That’s the kind of energy I want to cultivate in my own life. I may not always feel I have the time, strength or consistency, but reading your reflection gave me a renewed desire to keep moving forward with the right view and action, to tend to what I can, with kindness.
The choices that we make, to be kind and compassionate, can lead to more happiness and joy for ourselves and others. It can be this spiral upwards. It isn’t hard to wish well to others. We can learn to accept and be tolerant of ourselves as well as others; and we can do it without judgment and do it with lightness and humor at times. I don’t know the poet’s name, but I love this line, “Love your crooked neighbor with all your crooked heart.” We’re not perfect but we’re all in this together.
Thank you again for your wisdom and the way you live what you teach. It really does make a difference.
Really love this. Will be coming back to it for a while, I think.
Thank you for your Sunday essay; I truly enjoyed it. I enjoyed your reflections on culture as something to be cultivated with care, intention, and love.
I think a lot about how everything is interconnected. Your words reminded me that every gesture of kindness, every loaf of bread shared, every bit of ivy pulled from a tree is part of a larger web. We shape the whole through what we choose to do with what’s right in front of us.
Sometimes it feels overwhelming to know how much needs healing in the world. But your essay was a beautiful reminder that the way forward isn’t always through grand solutions, but through small acts done with compassion.
I appreciated the invitation to live with more attentiveness and to take responsibility; not out of guilt, but from a place of love and kindness. That’s the kind of energy I want to cultivate in my own life. I may not always feel I have the time, strength or consistency, but reading your reflection gave me a renewed desire to keep moving forward with the right view and action, to tend to what I can, with kindness.
The choices that we make, to be kind and compassionate, can lead to more happiness and joy for ourselves and others. It can be this spiral upwards. It isn’t hard to wish well to others. We can learn to accept and be tolerant of ourselves as well as others; and we can do it without judgment and do it with lightness and humor at times. I don’t know the poet’s name, but I love this line, “Love your crooked neighbor with all your crooked heart.” We’re not perfect but we’re all in this together.
Thank you again for your wisdom and the way you live what you teach. It really does make a difference.