“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.” ― L.R. Knost This is a reprint from 2025 about a pretty significant week for me. The COVID Isolation had lifted a bit and I was able to spend time with people I respected. On that week five years ago, I was a

I grew up in a steel town, Bethlehem PA. My dad worked for “The Company” aka “the Steel” for 43 years. The company, of course, was Bethlehem Steel. Up until the mid-1990’s it would have been hard to separate the town from the company. Everyone was in some way connected to what at one point in American history was the second-largest steel producer in the United States. Bethlehem Steel reached its peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the company employed around 300,000

“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” ― Rachel Carson This gratitude Friday I am writing about Raptors. When I say this, most people think I am talking about dinosaurs. A raptor is actually a bird of prey . Most people are thinking velociraptor . Related, although distant cousins , far removed. Bird watching is one of the few things I can do that stop the chatter in my head and holds

" We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard " - President John F Kennedy September 12, 1962 President Kennedy made the " We choose to go to the Moon " speech before I was born. He said we would develop technology and get to the moon before the end of the decade. It was part of the space race between the US and the USSR, which started a few years earlier when the Russians put a basketball sized sa