Walk in Beauty... The Purpose of Life

Navajo Teachings

Three visits to Cherokee Indian Reservation

in North Carolina

One Week at L'Abri

near Boston - 1982

Talking with Dick Keyes and others

My views have expanded over time...

Still, all is grist for the mill?

Hearing Pope John Paul II speak

at Vatican City in Italy

in 1988

My mother was born 180 miles from where he was born

Both born in Poland

First non-Italian Pope in 455 years

Assassination attempt in 1981,

seven years before I was in his audience

at St. Peter's Square in 1988.

With a day-visit to

The Sistine Chapel

witnessing the paintings of Michelangelo

Three years living in Kitzingen, Germany

Including dating a German neighbor for two years

My mother's native language is German

I attended church services

in the summertime, at a German-speaking

immigrant church

My Mother A War Refugee

Born in Tiny Village which

Soviets arrived at in 1939

Eighty percent were Jewish

First five years living on Eight Mile Road in Detroit

near Seven Mile Road See video & Attended

an All-Black Kindergarten

One of my uncles lost his life in a robbery in the area...

Visit to Stevie Wonder's

music studio 2007

Only white person on the tour