Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Tag: grief

  • Grimethorpe

    Grimethorpe

    When I was 19 years old, just after completing my first year at a large university in the American West, I left school to spend two years as a Mormon missionary in the Northeast of England. When I arrived in Britain, I knew little to nothing about the present social or economic conditions of the…

  • William Langewiesche on “Public Grief”

    William Langewiesche on “Public Grief”

    I spent some time catching up on the NPR Story of the Day Podcast today while I was folding laundry. Some were fairly memorable, but my favorite was an interview with this All Things Considered interview by Guy Raz with the journalist, novelist, and former pilot William Langewiesche. After the World Trade Center was destroyed, Langewiesche spent…

  • The Things I Do Not Remember: September 11, 2001

    Ten years ago, I was living in the LDS Missionary Training Centre (MTC) in Chorley, England, near Preston. I arrived there in early September at the beginning of what was to be a two year proselytizing mission for the Church. While I was at the MTC, I was assigned to live and study with a ‘companion’, the…

  • On Patience and Non-attachment

    I have long believed, in theory, that patience and non-attachment were complimentary and essential virtues and that I would do well to cultivate both of them. In practice, both are difficult, elusive, and have not always felt desirable or worthy of recommendation to others, particularly to those who suffer injustice. I have been thinking about…