I was talking with my favorite American tonight about my family’s experiences in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. My parents’ generation, West Indians who moved from the Caribbean to the Mother Country, is known as the Windrush generation after the boat that brought them to the UK’s shores in 1948. My parents landed several years after […]
In a world of matter, you can’t live on ether
In the misty Grecian past, philosophers imagined that the perceptible world was composed of five elements: earth, air, fire, water, and ether. Ether, or quintessence, was said to fill the realm in which the gods lived. In our time, most people no longer build our understanding of things on four or five elements. But we do still work […]
The gift of presence
This week, I’m in a class on philosophies of philanthropy and reading Eric Butterworth’s Spiritual Economics and Lynne Twist’s The Soul of Money. Butterworth’s book was first written the year I was born (some of the content shows that), but Twist’s book combines her reflections from a career in non-profit development, fundraising, and work on tough […]
