Reflections By The Bay

April 29, 2017 BURDENED BY FATE Burdened by fate ??????? Are we? Death, yes. Parents, yes. Body, yes. Place and space, ...

THE GAMALIEL PRINCIPLE INTRODUCTION The title of my homily is, “The Gamaliel Principle.” It’s worth hearing this principle ar...

APRIL 28, 2017 UNDOING Undoing…. Now, at times, that would be a skill we would all love to have. Undoing a comment tha...

STARTING  OVER  AND  OVER  AND  OVER  AGAIN  INTRODUCTION  The title of my homily is: “Starting Over and Over Again.” I’d...

ONE  LIFE   TO  LIVE, ONE  LIFE  TO  GIVE  I love the question that Mary Oliver asks in her poem,  The Summer Day, ...

April 27, 2017 MOMENTS Time ticks steadily, uniformly, exactly, tick, tick, tick, tick …. But life is not time - as much ...

April 26, 2017 TABLES There are tables and there are tables.  Then there is a favorite: it’s the one we did our homework on ...