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September 11, 2023

In This

The drop of a glass brings us running but we have to climb to...

September 04, 2023

Pairing Down

When your mask cracks, you can repair it or pull it apart and feel how...

August 2023

August 28, 2023

Practicing Intimacy

I invite you to practice intimacy. You may think, does he mean “practice making...

August 21, 2023

The Velocity of Change

If you drop a plate, or in frustration, throw it against a wall—Well, you...

August 14, 2023

Teaching as Greenhouse

After a lifetime of teaching, I’ve come to believe that you can’t change anyone. So,...

August 07, 2023

Yellow Requiem

You’ve both been gone for eight years and I am turning seventy. I still ...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

As I Age

Little things fall away as big things become more clear. I can no longer...

July 24, 2023

I Keep Diving Down and Coming Up

This whole journey is a rising and falling, a breaking into repair, a stubborn hike...

July 17, 2023

The Practice of Seeing and Not Seeing

I confess that though I see all for a second and nothing for a long...

July 10, 2023

Rendered

I was in the hammock watching the breeze through the willows when you and Zuzu ...

July 03, 2023

Street Magic

On the way home, a magician stops you with his banter as he discovers a...

June 2023

June 26, 2023

You Ask Why I Am Up So Quick

Because eating-air-without-holding-back tastes like music. It’s why I stop when kissing your shoulder, stalled in...

June 19, 2023

In This

The drop of a glass brings us running but we have to climb to...

June 12, 2023

Yet It Is So

In what you suffer and miss and hope for, you are alone. No one can...

June 05, 2023

The Fourth Orchid

In a moment of weariness with who he has become, a sex trader tells...

May 2023

May 29, 2023

In Your Care (for George at 75)

When I try to describe you to someone who doesn’t know you, I smile...

May 22, 2023

The Sacred Grove

Somewhere, along the way, I learned that Plato had no formal curriculum. He was simply...

May 15, 2023

Attuned

Something beats inside the soul, the way the heart beats inside our chest. ...

May 08, 2023

What We See When our Eyes Are Closed

The things we can’t see feed us, the way the soil feeds the rose, the...

May 01, 2023

Your Love

The leaf twirled this way and that and finally landed on the pond like the...

April 2023

April 24, 2023

For Those Who Still Meet Life with Song

Perhaps all beauty is in the dab of taste on the tongue. Perhaps we ...

April 17, 2023

Below All Names

We often live like shadows, suffering from stories never told and songs never sung. ...

April 10, 2023

Pain and Glow

We have shed many skins, always working toward some uncovered state: below opinion, below expectation,...

March 2023

March 27, 2023

Finding Our Way

A cramp of conscience can bring us to our knees, and a grip of pain...

March 20, 2023

Miraculum

Sometimes, when things break, life begins. It still hurts. But when the egg cracks, the...

March 13, 2023

How We Arrive

It doesn’t matter how we arrive, just that we do. Tolstoy wrote thirteen drafts of...

March 06, 2023

By the River

A weary soul kneels by the river, plunging his hands in despair. Miles away, another...

February 2023

February 27, 2023

Keeping a Friend Alive

My good friend, Rich Frankel, is a pioneer in relationship-centered care who works with medical...

February 20, 2023

Keeping a Friend’s Work Alive

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor and theologian caught in the maelstrom that was...

February 13, 2023

Living with the Wound

If your voice breaks, I’ll be a cup. If your heart sweats, I’ll be a...

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