John Daniels

My blogs

Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Learning
Location	Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Introduction	People and wood. Both form me, and I enjoy participating in their formation, too. My wife since 1969, my children since 1970, the Jesuits and Sisters of Mercy and colleagues at University of Detroit Mercy all that time, have formed me. And later in my work at the university, the homeless and poor in Detroit formed me too. Now that I am retired on the Old Mission Peninsula in northern Michigan, it is people and wood that call me. Some people and some wood have come with me from Detroit. More and more come to me from our new home here. Old and new continue to form me, call me to honor them by reflecting and responding. Serving and learning with those without homes and those who care about them every day give me sustaining purpose, along with those I have met in the rich, deeply human dying part of life. God holds me beloved, and is the source of all I am blessed to do. I live in a call of responsible gratitude.
Interests	enjoying wife and family, serving and befriending those without homes, writing, listening, woodworking
Favorite Movies	Babette's Feast, The Five Senses, Wrestling With Ernest Hemingway, After Life
Favorite Music	Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, Brahms' German Requiem
Favorite Books	Bible, Buber's I and Thou, Greenleaf's Servant Leadership, various by Rahner, Brueggeman, Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.