Thoughts for a new year   Most of us look away when we pass strangers. It is the expectional person who stops to help the woman maneuvering her kids and groceries up the staircase. We rarely give up in line or on the subway or bus. Locked

I believe that I always have a choice. No matter what I'm doing. No matter where I am. No matter what is happening to me. I always have a choice. Today I am sitting at my computer, speaking these words through a microphone. Although I have

With the Year of the Snake practically upon us, and with the solar New Year fast fading into distant memory, I have been ruminating（反刍，沉思） over the habit that so many people have of making new year resolutions ... and then breaking t

My mother used to ask me what the most important part of the body is. Through the years I would guess at what I thought was the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us as humans, so I said, "My ears, Mo

My father was an exceptional man. He may not have been a perfect man. But he was a good man. And he loved us. All I wanted to do today was to give him a dignified…sending. Is that really so much to ask? So... Maybe... Maybe he had some th

Be still. Just for a moment. Listen to the world around you. Feel your breath coming in and going out. Listen to your thoughts. See the details of your surroundings. Be at peace with being still. In this modern world, activity and movem

This single stick now is ingloriously lying in that neglected corner. Once it was in a forest, full of sap, leaves and boughs; now in vain someone has tried to compete with nature by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its trunk. It is