What’s a role model and what’s its significance in today’s world?
When speaking about the young in our society it’s a term some throw around lightly, yet its observance and potential holds the key to the formation of a child’s character.
Looking back on the wonderful memories I’ve had and being grateful for each and every blessing reminds me of a song on a Clint Black CD. He sings of the meaning of love.
What is it to be Irish, you may ask, since St. Patty’s day is almost upon us? Well… It is to have an angel in your mouth turning your prose to poetry. It is to have the gift of tongues to know the language of all living things. An Irishman pauses, turns an ear to a tree because he wants to hear what one sleepy bud says to another as it opens its pale, green hands to the warm sun of spring.
Humility is not just a definition in the dictionary; it is a virtue that is practiced in the heart. But understanding its true meaning has always been a puzzle to me as is its opposite, pride.
I’m following through on last month’s column about “unexpected goodness” for this month’s column concerning a gentleman who had just such an experience. His email was lyrical and his heartfelt adventure a pure joy to read.
By Winnie Bolton My, oh my, how the world is changing for the better! Wouldn’t it be fantastic if just one day we could wake-up to hear those words over our airwaves or read them in our newspapers instead of the malaise the world renders us? The bad news often makes it difficult to lift the veil that blurs the […]
I’ve been aware for some time now that rifts in otherwise loving families can continue for awhile without a clue toward healing.
By Winnie Bolton July 1990 Tom and I moved from Paradise Valley, Ariz., into another “here after” called Mt. Angel, Ore., through the prompting and encouragement of Fr. Bernard, a monk of the Mt. Angel Abbey, who now has recently passed. We settled in, met town folk and within six months I joined the Silverton Hospital Auxiliary, much to my […]
Celebrating the Fourth of July, we learned at an early age, meant observance of our independence from another nation – our freedom from domination. Now celebrating 232 years of freedom, let’s truly echo the celebration of life that has the side effect of aliveness, just as poetry is the outcome of mindfulness. The more alive we feel the more receptive […]
