Calvin Ross, 2025
While Zooming with the Aces on 7/17/25, I offered the following quotation by Ram Dass:
“We’re all just walking each other home.”
That notion has various interpretations, especially ones for our stage of life. As we stroll into our mid-80s, I want to offer an invitation. Let’s share thoughts and experiences of our journey that have been spiritual or are becoming spiritual. Because we can’t meet regularly at Starbucks, we’ll walk together via emails, texts, and a few phone calls.
Exactly what we mean by spirituality could start our conversation. Other aspects would be how dimensions of our faith might, or might not, fit into organized religion, into the religions of the world, or even into agnosticism or atheism.
This invitation is prompted from delightful, ongoing conversation with a friend here who’s eclectically religious. Her intelligent, penetrating questions about my Christian faith have opened a dialogue enriching both of us.
You may not be into poetry—which I certainly respect, but here are lines which express much of what I believe. They’re from “Sabbaths 2006” by Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer and academic.
If there are a “chosen few”
then I am not one of them,
if an “elect,” well then
I have not been elected.
I am one who is knocking
at the door. I am one whose foot
is on the bottom rung.
But I know that Heaven’s
bottom rung is Heaven
though the ladder is standing
on the earth where I work
by day and at night sleep
with my head upon a stone.
If you’re interested in accepting this invitation for conversation while “walking each other home,” please contact me.
Blessings, Calvin
423-202-0050
skiwritethrow@comcast.net
