Friday, February 27, 2026: What if the mightiest word is love? Legacy reflection by Brother Toby: I learned a very valuable lesson from Charles “Sparky” Schulz (1922-2000), the magnificent cartoonist of “Peanuts.” He told me never to read a newspaper first thing in the morning or last thing at night. And Sparky was absolutely right! I often forget that the night is part of the day. If the daylight hours have been difficult and there are very unhealthy things going on in our country or in the world, the night is a time of purity. Sometimes I sit beside my cat listening to the crickets, there are so many of them at this time of year. It is really a choral fantasy. And, of course, there are the toads. They care nothing at all about what goes on in Washington, D.C. They travel happily down the gravel paths and at least one is almost always outside my bedroom window. What is the world like to a cricket, a toad, the occasional owl that flies by, or the gray fox that makes he...
