Greg FieldsAug 28, 20183 minTeach Your Parents WellThis 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...
Greg FieldsDec 18, 20174 minSeasonal Reflections - Raking Leaves In The Beloved CommunitySixteen 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 FieldsNov 12, 20173 minThe 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 FieldsApr 14, 20174 minMornings in BerkeleyIn February, when much of the world digs out from snow or splashes through dirty gray sludge, the Bay Area sparkles. On most mornings...
Greg FieldsDec 24, 20164 minWhere Hope SurvivesAnd 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 FieldsNov 9, 20163 minCompassion and SorrowIn an election season that has spoken to our worst instincts rather than our highest aspirations, it’s been a struggle to conclude that...
Greg FieldsAug 22, 20164 minPlaying Catch With My SonI 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 FieldsAug 2, 20165 minLessons From My DogLucas 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 FieldsMar 14, 20162 minOne Night in BerkeleyOutside my apartment early this morning, well before sunrise, a homeless man was staggering about. He woke me first with his anger, a...
Greg FieldsFeb 16, 20162 minAfter 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 FieldsJan 2, 20161 minOn FatherhoodMy 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 FieldsDec 20, 201511 minReflections from RwandaThe great Irish poet Patrick Kavanaugh once commented, “One feels the impertinence of writing ‘I’ this or that as if we thought ourselves...
Greg FieldsDec 13, 20152 minReflections of the Season - December 2015As we get older, it can become ever more difficult to strip away the complications we build for ourselves, and to shed the complexities...
Greg FieldsDec 26, 20142 minChristmas Reflections - December 2014As we get older, it seems the winters become more bitter. Winds blow harder, temperatures dip lower, and the sun makes fewer and fewer...