Join me in 2022

I invite you to join me during 2022 to explore, consider, and put into practice the fifty-two virtues in my book “Little Book of Virtues.”   I will start January 1st with the virtue of “Authenticity” and spend a week going deeper into being a...

A Christmas Virtues Story

Grandson Caleb Wilson, who would have been about Marty’s age… I first came acrosss this true story by Diane Rayner about her son Marty years ago when we lived up in Skagit County. I have read it aloud at Christmas gatherings a number of times since, and it...

Practice makes possible

1975, Rathskellers, Moscow ID True confession:   I’m a drummer. A very out-of-practice drummer. But at my peak…I was a mediocre drummer! I had a brother who was a child prodigy, a cousin who was a famous rock star (in the 60’s), a talented father who...

Every Time…

Grandsons Fred and Julio You might get tired of me hammering home this point, but it’s so important! If you are a Virtues giant giving Jesus a run for his money in regard to holiness, great!  But if being virtuous seems just way too overwhelming, I will say it...

Look…

Julee and I watched a new “Prime” movie last night called “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.” Based on a true story, it was a very quirky movie, but we enjoyed it immensely. The main character, Louis, struggles greatly at fitting in to the...

Joe Walsh says…

Guitarist and recording artist Joe Walsh, then and now “We are all addicted to our own habitual way of doing anything, our own defenses, and, most especially, our patterned way of thinking, or how we process reality.” Richard Rohr I have been a bit obsessed with...