Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are