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August 2016

August 31, 2016

Video Blog: The One Life We’re Given

If you enjoyed Mark Nepo's #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening,...

August 29, 2016

Our Struggle and Possibility

Read Mark Nepo's timely Op-Ed. Like everyone, I am deeply disturbed by the epidemic of...

August 23, 2016

Mark Nepo’s New Video Blog (“Vlog”) – Inside the Miracle – Letting Pain And Fear Through

Mark Nepo shares an excerpt from his new book Inside the Miracle, welcomes us into...

August 22, 2016

Just a Glimpse

On a sunny day on a visit to Seattle, I woke heavy-hearted, as the clouds...

August 15, 2016

Knocked Off Our Horse

Saul of Tarsus was an intransigent Roman citizen, zealous in his persecution of early Christians...

August 08, 2016

Striving Just to Be

My wife, Susan, is a potter. When she was first learning to center clay on...

August 01, 2016

Asking for Our Turn

Karen’s father never listened to her. When her college friend, Iris, came home for Thanksgiving...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

The Journey to Here

I'm excited to share my new book, The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom...

July 18, 2016

Touching the Water with Mark Nepo

I'm excited to share my new book, The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom...

July 11, 2016

Two Kinds of Work

I'm excited to share my new book, The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom...

July 05, 2016

When We Set Out

My father has been with me since his death, speaking to me through the things...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Meeting Life

When we can still ourselves, our heart will sink —of its own weight—below the noise...

June 20, 2016

The Power of Holding

A rheumatologist at a workshop at the Cleveland Clinic spoke of a twenty-one-year-old woman she...

June 16, 2016

For Orlando

The tragic murder of all these young, beautiful beings in Orlando makes all the talk...

June 13, 2016

Everyone Has a Gift

Each person is born with a gift. Our call is to find it and care...

June 06, 2016

Shaped by Life

My dear father, Morris Nepo, died three years ago at the age of ninety-three. He...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

The Sway of It All

THE SWAY OF IT ALL And so I lift my face from the mud,...

May 23, 2016

Thrown Back

Twenty-six years ago today, the tumor growing in my skull vanished and I was thrown...

May 18, 2016

Cradlesong

CRADLESONG (for Jessica) How do I explain chemotherapy to a six-year-old up in my...

May 02, 2016

IT First It was a woman with auburn hair whose head would moan when...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Letting Go

LETTING GO After feeling driven my whole life something very near the center has...

April 21, 2016

In the Sea of Others

IN THE SEA OF OTHERS It’s next to impossible to do this alone. We...

April 11, 2016

Eventually

EVENTUALLY We stop trying to carry all that we know as if it will...

April 04, 2016

Adrift

ADRIFT Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Ocean of Sky

OCEAN OF SKY The cloud shelf drifts toward what still seems possible and the...

March 21, 2016

Midway in Our Journey

MIDWAY IN OUR JOURNEY Just when we’re softened by the years, when we have...

March 14, 2016

What Can I Do?

WHAT CAN I DO? I was surprised when John, who helped save my life, came...

March 07, 2016

Knowing God

KNOWING GOD Oh lone crazed bird singing in the night— you sing with...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Sitting Near a Smoke Bush

SITTING NEAR A SMOKE BUSH It was feathery and in bloom. Bees were circling. Children...

February 22, 2016

Kalamazoo Shootings

On Saturday night, February 20, there was a mass shooting here in Kalamazoo. Now the...

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