A Beacon of Light

“No one you love is ever truly lost.” ~ Ernest Hemingway When I received my class rosters prior to the first day of teaching at St. Augustine’s College in Nassau, I had no idea that one of the students on those lists would become a lifelong friend. Kim Brohier was in one of my 10th grade classes.…

“Constant attention by a good nursemay be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.” ~ Dag Hammarskjöld Other than the time of my birth, I’ve been fortunate to have avoided frequent hospital stays. In my early elementary school years, I had my tonsils removed at Saint Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco. In the pediatric…

“A sense of humor is the ability  to understand a joke  — and that the joke is oneself.”  ~ Clifton Paul Fadiman On a sunny San Francisco day in the early 1970s, one of my best high school buddies and I went for a bike ride. I had purchased a Raleigh Grand Prix 10-speed touring…

“Hope is being able to see that there is a light despite all of the darkness.” ~ Bishop Desmond Tutu I once heard that the word HOPE is actually an acronym: Have Only Positive Expectations. I guess there’s something to be said for this. The dictionary tells us that hope is a feeling that what we want to…