One day, a while back, I was coming out of a grocery store heading towards my car in the parking lot. As I exited the building, a youngish man on a crutch and a cast on his leg hobbled over in my direction. I spotted him immediately and knew that he would be asking me…

It is only because of my hard-fought, but tenacious, relationship with the darkness, that I am able to embrace the magnificence and warmth of the light. I was determined to sit with the uncomfortable and the ugly. I am sure that this conviction was born out of necessity: I simply wanted to live in peace….