by Mark Edge | Dec 16, 2022 | Spiritual Health
I had a good friend growing up who loved Julie Andrews. My friend would imitate her singing songs from Mary Poppins or The Sound of Music. I hated doing anything remotely like that. Consequently, I was an adult before I fully began to appreciate her. Every year as my...
by Mark Edge | Sep 24, 2022 | Spiritual Health
Bobby Jones was one of the greatest golfers, if not the greatest golfer, of all time. During the “Golden Age of Sport” in the 1920s, Jones reigned supreme with Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Bill Tilden as great athletes. He’s the only athlete to have received two...
by Mark Edge | Sep 7, 2022 | Spiritual Health
I read a story a while back in a journal* that went like this. During the Middle Ages, a man saw three brick layers working. He asked the first, “What are you doing?” The layer, somewhat irritated, replied, “I’m laying bricks.” He asked the second, “What are you...
by Mark Edge | Jun 16, 2022 | Spiritual Health
We in the United States have paid an unforeseen price for our advancements. As the journalist Sebastian Junger noted in his book Tribe, the more possessions (and property) we have acquired, the more we’ve made decisions based on our desires. Inevitably this has...
by Mark Edge | Mar 30, 2022 | Spiritual Health
The Twenties. A crazy decade. At least, that is what the research shows. Consider the case of the riot at one of our most prestigious universities. Maybe you read about this. At this institution of higher learning, the founders hoped their college would be a place...
by Mark Edge | Mar 23, 2022 | Emotional Health, Spiritual Health
My friend and fellow Toastmaster Michael Brown is a coach and podcaster. I heard him speak recently about his hobby of carving blocks of wood and transforming them into marvelous works of art and utility. The progression is long for Michael and includes shaving,...
