Category: Compassion and Human Nature

• Why Human Beings Need to Speak: Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone, and Human Dignity

  The other day, I was reading a blog ranking the best acting performances in The Twilight Zone. The number one choice was Burgess Meredith in the famous episode where he…

  

• A Cemetery Story: The Lives Behind the Gravestones

  A childhood spent wandering cemeteries led me to think about the people we forget in stories, films, history, and even real life. Every background character is still a human being…

  

• The Box We Did Not Build

  A reflection on identity, belonging, and the freedom to think for ourselves “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” “Know thyself.” “In a world…

  

• The Kind of Morning You Remember

  I have a sister-in-law with a severe intellectual disability. She can speak and may understand some of what is being said around her, but when she talks, the words often…

  

• Needed Yesterday

  Kindness is rarely dramatic. More often, it is found in small moments when we choose to lighten someone else’s burden, even briefly. This personal reflection explores compassion, responsibility, and how…

  

• The Measure of a Person

  A reflection on what it truly means to be a good person. Explores how character is shaped less by grand moments and more by the quiet choices we make every…

  

• The Weight of Presence.

  This reflection explores the hidden emotional weight often carried by nurses, caregivers, teachers, and others whose compassion brings them close to difficult human moments.