brothered

Illustration by Al Cassidy 2014 Derived from medieval Europe, “blue bloods” distinguishes the upper class—whose veins appeared blue through their untanned skin—from the working class of the time. The term eventually came to refer generally to a those who inherited a bloodline. Len Cariou plays Henry Regan, the family patriarch and  former New York police [...]

On the first day of spring this year I was in place on the front lawn of Christian Brothers Center in Narragansett to welcome a magnificent sunrise. In the gentle breeze the trees were almost as flexible as I was in several yoga poses. As the sky lightened up a bit my attention was diverted [...]

Early in the spring of 1978 Bill Fecteau and I met on a street corner in the South Bronx to evaluate our efforts to refound a Lasallian community in that neighborhood. Our long standing community at St. Augustine School had closed a year earlier, and a new mission was developing around adults who wanted to begin [...]

Recently, while sitting in 22B on a United Airlines flight, I had a great awakening when the president of United came on the screen in front of me with a commercial. He wore a shirt with the United emblem on the chest. Behind him stood a plane with the usual markings, but not once in his [...]