• Nature’s Quiet Lesson, Squirrel

    I received a “memory rewind” from Facebook that carried me back nine years. At first, it filled me with warmth—and then a quiet wave of sadness washed over me. The photos captured such beautiful moments that they made me smile, but soon I found myself grieving how much life has changed. The children are grown…

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  • What Actually Makes a Relationship Strong

    Family, Friends, Coworkers: Humans live in society. We interact with the people around us, and in broad terms they fall into three buckets: family, friends, and coworkers.Each bucket has its own dynamics. The differences are worth examining, because most of us treat all three the same way and then wonder why some hold and others…

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  • Birds at the feeder made me reflect

    What a Sparrow Knows That We Have Forgotten This morning at a bird feeder, I observed something that made me think. A fledgling sparrow — old enough to pick up grain by herself, and doing so — suddenly flickered her wings in a particular way. Her mother, who had been watching, immediately picked up a…

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  • The Gurdwara: Recovering the Original Vision

    Walk into any Gurdwara in the world today, and the experience is broadly the same. You remove your shoes, cover your head, and enter a hall where the Guru Granth Sahib rests under a canopy. Kirtan fills the room. Eventually you make your way to the Langar hall, sit on the floor alongside strangers, and…

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