I am infected with an incurable tendency to play with words. I was statistically at risk for this affliction after forty-two years of exposure to my father's incessant punning. In writing Divinity in Disguise, however, I discovered that wordplay can be a surprising source of grace. Even changing one comma in a sentence can lead the mind down a different path than it thought it was traveling. Let's play with Thanksgiving. Ordinarily we mentally reverse the word to giving thank

I know re-watching Dead Poet’s Society and hearing Robin Williams tell his students that the deceased people in the class pictures on the school walls are calling out to them, “Carpe diem, seize the day boys!” will be difficult. I thought I had longer to enjoy this world with Robin Williams in it. A few days ago, I attended a funeral for a person who deeply impacted me as a young man. Jerry Dorn was a Glenmary priest who gave up having a family of his own yet poured out his s

So why did I choose thewingedlife.com as the name for my website? And what is the winged life anyway? Perhaps the clearest answer to the latter question came to me in a nested meditation I wrote for Divinity in Disguise: A pious caterpillar believes. A pious caterpillar believes, an enlightened caterpillar knows. A pious caterpillar believes, an enlightened caterpillar knows the winged life. A pious caterpillar believes, an enlightened caterpillar knows the winged life requi