by McDermott + Bull | May 3, 2022 | A Relationship Story, Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
| ”If you examine a life... do you really examine the life, or do you examine the shadow it casts on other lives?” — From the National Book Award winning novel The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner “The shadow we cast” is a powerful thought. It’s also a huge...
by McDermott + Bull | Jun 8, 2021 | A Relationship Story, Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
”It almost makes you wonder what else you don’t know about yet.” — From the National Book Award winning novel Charming Billy by Alice McDermott We spend so much energy trying to be our best, when in reality, we are not ever our best because of what is yet to be...
by Tori Leets | Sep 16, 2020 | A Relationship Story, Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
I recently had an odd dream where I was sitting outside around what seemed like an unlimited number of people. Each person was holding a small bundle in their hands. Nothing special was going on, there was no obvious activity or purpose. Everyone was just sitting...
by Tori Leets | Aug 4, 2020 | A Relationship Story, Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
In our entire lifetime, our world may have never been as confusing as it is today. It is often made so much worse with the amount of information available to us. So, what are our choices? How can we make this work for us instead of against us? How are we looking at...
by Tori Leets | Apr 13, 2020 | A Relationship Story, Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
“…the emergency of dawn and dusk, summer and winter, the very cycle of the sun and of all the suns that were and were to come.” From the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday. Lately, the lives of “we, the healthy and fortunate”...
by McDermott + Bull | Feb 26, 2020 | A Relationship Story, Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
“…keep in mind that the purpose of freedom is to create it for others.” From the novel The Fixer by Bernard Malamud This suggests that our freedom is more than a fact or even a right, but creating it for others is also a responsibility. Perhaps not everyone will...
