Marianne and Jim Houston What a wonderful thing was the Loving Decision by the Supreme Court in 1967! When we married in 1968 we rejoiced with much of the nation: interracial marriage was finally legal in the U.S. When we celebrated our 50th anniversary in 2018 we...
Caryl & Jeff Creswell “To live in this world you must be able to do three things:to love what is mortal;to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” Mary Oliver Caryl came to see Jeff about...
Laurie Rutenberg and Gary Schoenberg “Welcoming guests is more important than communing with God.” From the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Yehudah in the name of Rav Laurie Rutenberg and Gary Schoenberg met in Jerusalem during their first year in rabbinical...
Paul and Roz Dumesnil and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love. David...
Faye & Steve Snyder You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn’t that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I...