I am writing this sitting in the Roosevelt House at the Schoodic Institute in Winter Harbor, Maine. We are here for our annual gathering of Peace Corps Volunteers who trained together and then worked in communities large and small throughout Chile more than sixty years ago. Just some of us at Schoodic For more than forty years we have gathered to share stories of our experiences and rekindle friendships. Telling stories of traveling by horse to an assigned community, of making a monthly...

I looked out the window and saw a baby fawn nestled partially under our front deck. She stayed there quietly ... until my wife returned with our dog. She sensed the dog. And then she was gone. We had worried about her being so close to the house. While the fawn was there, we searched online to learn whether there was something we should do. I learned that a mother deer will sometimes leave her fawn in a safe place, the fawn somehow knowing to remain there until she returns. The fawn may...

Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water. Come. Lord, save me! He reached out his hand, saying to him You of little faith, why did you doubt? ______________________ Image by r.raymond