I notice that the sun is rising now at 7 am - right as I am leaving for work.

It was time to wash my dress shirts which I wear everyday to teach in. I feel God near in this care-full ritual.

I am thinking about big things like Teilhard deChardin's understanding of the noosphere and I discover a TED Talk which is all about it.

I don't have school as my colleagues learn how to use Power School for next year. Simultaneously my wife was with our daughter as she had surgery to have tubes put into hear ears.

I give a quiz and only one student catches a little "Easter egg" I put in it regarding the object of worship by the small, mysterious sect known as the Pastafarians.

I am warmed on a pivotal day nationally and internationally by the celebration of the diversity of my school community on display in an assembly today.

The talk about the film "The Green Book" leads me to learn about the historical importance of the Negro Traveller's Green Book and the way it aided many in the 1940s and 1950's.

I am sad as I learned on Monday that a friend and mentor from long ago died Sunday afternoon. Fr. Paul, just 4 years older than me, was there with me back 30 years ago when I was in high school and then college. I have deep faith that he joins other friends of mine -saints now in the fullness of Christ - as a presence still with me and all of us. ✌🙏💜

I hear Jesus' words in today's gospel about how to live in community and I am struck by how I experience this twice on Sunday.

I was moved with joy and gratitude as I watched the first Spring Training game of the year and then the amazing film "Roma"