One week I testified before a U.S. Senate committee. It did not go well and, bowed as well as beaten, my ego limped out of the hearing room. Get your ego out of it. Stand back and look (at it) at a distance. “A ‘God’s-eye’ view?” No, just objectively, as if it were someone else. […]
All this was taking place on a flight to visit my Mom and Dad, who were in their eighties and living in California. Sitting beside me was a nine-year-old girl, traveling alone. She kept looking at me, wondering what I was up to. Ignoring her was unkind, so I stopped praying and chatted with her. […]
A friend’s recent experience reminded me of Steerforth in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. He was a charming, good-looking, multi-talented senior boy when a desperate young David escaped his abusive stepfather and, with the aid of a spinster aunt, got into a good school. New boys are normally treated very badly but Steerforth, for whatever reason, cast […]
