By Deacon John Degano
I stumbled across a listing for my old college ceramics instructor the other day while surfing the Internet for an obituary I wanted to make reference to during the graveside service I would be celebrating at Riverside National Cemetery.
My teacher had not died (I am happy to report) but was alive and well and following his muse around the world and here in the Los Angeles basin.
By Deacon John Degano
I attended a wedding of the daughter of a co-worker recently and heard the familiar words, “For this reason a man shall leave his mother and a woman leave her home…” And I wondered if the couple truly understood what changes in their lives these powerful words meant.
In the movie “When Harry met Sally,” there is a scene where the newly married couple argue over a piece of furniture. He wants to keep it. She thinks it’s hideous and refuses to let it remain in their house. In the end, the ‘yard sale’ wagon wheel table ends up at the curb.
By Deacon John Degano
Most of us see ourselves as good communicators. We know what we want and we ask until we get it.
Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, has been called ‘the Great Communicator’ because he came across as simple, clear and sincere.
By Deacon John Degano
It’s election season again. Not the presidential election, but the off-year state, local, school and public utility district elections. In some cases, it may even be ‘run off’ time for those races disputed in the November election.
Election signs are popping up on lawns and along street rights-of-way. Phone banks are churning out calls to registered voters and mail boxes are becoming receptacles for slick voter sheets that all look the same and question the veracity of the opposition candidates.
By Deacon John Degano
What happens in heaven, stays in heaven.
I know it sounds like a commercial for Las Vegas and a decadent lifestyle, but no one has returned from heaven to tell us what happens there once we leave this mortal coil.
I suppose that’s so we don’t fall into the trap of expecting something to happen and then being disappointed if it doesn’t happen just the way we thought it would.
