Friends
Wednesday night: I sat down this morning in a coffee shop to begin writing about friendship. Before my laptop was open, two young men who were obviously friends walked in and sat two tables away. Perfect, I thought, real live research. Maybe I’ll even see if I can get a picture of them. But it […]
Get in the game.
The writer C. S. Lewis carried on a massive correspondence during his lifetime. Many of the letters are collected in three volumes and are organized chronologically. Sometimes he waxes eloquent, but occasionally he will begin with “This must be necessarily brief.” Such is the case here, and it isn’t for lack of something to say. […]
Do good, even if it annoys somebody.
You might think from the headline (Do good, even if it annoys somebody.) that I am advocating annoying people. Au contraire, as they say in France. I am advocating doing good not for the purpose of annoying others, but in spite of the fact that it might. No, in spite of the fact that it […]
