When you rent, you work with what you have—worn carpeting, tiny kitchens, walls you can’t knock down. I tend to overlook most of my apartment’s cosmetic frustrations because it’s a trade-off. I can’t replace the carpet, yet it also snowed 4 inches last night and I don’t have to shovel even a spoonful of it. […]
Read MoreI came across this quote while reading Ruthless Trust earlier this year. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve returned to Brennan Manning’s chapter on gratitude in that book. Gratitude is frequently seen as something we do (perhaps as we sit at a table loaded with garlic mashed potatoes and turkey). Yet Manning—and Steindl-Rast in […]
Read MoreIn a few days, Anthony Doerr might win the National Book Award. He’d win it for a beautiful, richly detailed novel that raises deep questions about good and evil against the backdrop of World War II. I can’t imagine him working a deep fryer at a restaurant. But he did. Twenty years ago he was […]
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