A couple of months ago I read a wonderful thought in a book by Alicia B. Chole entitled 40 Days of Decrease, in which she wrote about “thinning” our lives. It is actually a book about Lent, and a different kind of fasting than we most normally think. I liked …
You may be familiar with the well-known meeting place at Shibuya train station in Tokyo, Japan; one of my favorite places. The legendary story is about Professor Eizaburo Ueno of Tokyo University and his faithful Akita dog, Hachiko, (pronounced Ha chee ko). The two were always together. Hachiko would accompany …
