I am grateful for the lists I have been reading of “the most notable events” of the past year. But at present many of the most hopeful occurrences of 2017 are likely hidden from our view.
When a baby looks in a mirror
It sees an ever-deepening mystery,
An ever-changing reversal of the familiar,
Something known and unknown,
Knowable, yet essentially unknowable.
A mirror is a fascinating glimp...
In the spring of 1999, during NATO’s bombing of Serbia, I was in the "Tent City" in Tirana, Albania. Floods of Kosovar refugees were pouring into the camps, telling horrific stories of rape and ethnic ...