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Apr 6
4 min

Angels In The Dark Days

In early April in 1994 a missile shot up from the hillsides near the Kigali airport and brought down a small plane holding Juvenal...

The Call of Springtime in the Fallow Days

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Dec 7, 2020
2 min

The Call of Springtime in the Fallow Days

We walk now in the coldest, the cruelest of winters, this winter, with its deep sorrows. But it will not always be this way, and we must...

Greg Fields

Aug 28, 2020
3 min

The Indecency of Silence

We have passed the time for silence We have passed the complacency of safety and sanctuary. We can no longer convince ourselves that...

Greg Fields

Jun 8, 2020
4 min

A Country In Need of Repair

I spent Saturday morning embedding bricks into the muddy rim of our garden, the first layer of a decorative divider that would highlight...

Greg Fields

May 19, 2020
5 min

The Measure of Greatness

I think continually of those who were truly great. Who, from the womb, remembered the soul’s history Through corridors of light, where...

Greg Fields

Nov 21, 2019
4 min

A Quiet Blinding Light

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life those the art of living...

Greg Fields

Dec 27, 2018
4 min

Hymn to a Cold Virginia Morning

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver, The...

Greg Fields

Nov 30, 2018
4 min

Looking Through a Distant Mirror

A few weeks ago I headed up to New Jersey to attend a book fair, part of the wondrous new sensation of calling myself a writer. I spent...

Greg Fields

Aug 28, 2018
3 min

Teach Your Parents Well

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a...

Seasonal Reflections - Raking Leaves In The Beloved Community

Greg Fields

Dec 18, 2017
4 min

Seasonal Reflections - Raking Leaves In The Beloved Community

Sixteen years ago we made the move from Minneapolis to Virginia. Lynn and I flew out for a few days in early December to find a place to...

Greg Fields

Nov 12, 2017
3 min

The Moral Universe

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” - Martin Luther King I live in Northern Virginia, which, for the...

Greg Fields

Apr 14, 2017
4 min

Mornings in Berkeley

In February, when much of the world digs out from snow or splashes through dirty gray sludge, the Bay Area sparkles. On most mornings...

Greg Fields

Dec 24, 2016
4 min

Where Hope Survives

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings -The...

Greg Fields

Nov 9, 2016
3 min

Compassion and Sorrow

In an election season that has spoken to our worst instincts rather than our highest aspirations, it’s been a struggle to conclude that...

Greg Fields

Aug 22, 2016
4 min

Playing Catch With My Son

I wanted him to love the game as much as I do, so we started when he was very young. When he was three he had a plastic bat and ball,...

Greg Fields

Aug 2, 2016
5 min

Lessons From My Dog

Lucas bounded into our lives several years ago, an eight-week old puppy with one floppy ear, the fluffiest tail I had ever seen, and a...

Greg Fields

Mar 14, 2016
2 min

One Night in Berkeley

Outside my apartment early this morning, well before sunrise, a homeless man was staggering about. He woke me first with his anger, a...

Greg Fields

Feb 16, 2016
2 min

After the First Death…….

On March 4th we lost Pat Conroy, and on that day the world became a bit duller, a bit less expressive. I thought he’d have more time. ...

Greg Fields

Jan 2, 2016
1 min

On Fatherhood

My father never told me how to live. Instead, he led his own life, and let me watch it. From him I learned loyalty, integrity,...

Greg Fields

Dec 20, 2015
11 min

Reflections from Rwanda

The great Irish poet Patrick Kavanaugh once commented, “One feels the impertinence of writing ‘I’ this or that as if we thought ourselves...

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