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May 2022

May 16, 2022

Everyday Life

It is the simplest of paradoxes: You can’t see what you are in. As...

May 09, 2022

Stacks of Wheat

So many thought Monet was making it up, imagining wildly how things might be if...

May 02, 2022

The Way

When a horse runs, it leaps and touches down by turns. In just this...

April 2022

April 18, 2022

Speaking What We Know to be True

The story of Moses carries an archetype that we all must face and live with....

April 11, 2022

Cascade

As soon as we can walk, we are taught to run. In time, we think...

April 04, 2022

Never Lost, Always Found

On the darkest night of the year, Susan asks about Grandma Minnie yet again. And...

March 2022

March 28, 2022

Anthem

Yes, you fell down. I feel for you, for I have fallen many times. ...

March 21, 2022

Traveling Again

After almost two years at home, I was overwhelmed just ordering the Uber to the...

March 14, 2022

For Your Birthday

You ask for a story instead of a present and I’ve fallen into remembering the...

March 07, 2022

Under the Quest

Can you drink from the Lake of Being you came from before you were named?...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

Staying Awake

I don’t support the notion that some people are awake and others are not. Everyone...

February 21, 2022

A Teacher Without A Name

Belief, when experienced as a teacher without a name, enables us to enliven a kinship...

February 14, 2022

Resilience

Given that I almost died from cancer, I have had several attribute my survival to...

February 07, 2022

The Work of Friendship

When we fell into the stream of days, my eyes were cleansed, your ears worn...

January 2022

January 30, 2022

The Instrument That Is You

We discover metaphors by surrendering our attention, by staying in honest conversation, and by listening...

January 24, 2022

Where to Now?

Now that I’ve come out of hiding, my fears are forgetting to be afraid. ...

January 09, 2022

Being A Romantic

Throughout history, those afraid of the life of feelings have undermined their power and dismissed...

January 03, 2022

The Mute Sage

When the jar fell off the counter and broke, our dog went to lick up...

December 2021

December 27, 2021

Living a Making

When finding my way, I came home from college to have a classic argument with...

December 20, 2021

Being Vulnerable

Even if it takes years, it is important to heal the wounded places, so we...

December 12, 2021

What It Means to Perceive 2

There was a particular moment of perception that transformed me completely. I had had a...

December 06, 2021

Doing for Others, Seeing for Ourselves

A tribe migrates west because they are being persecuted. They emigrate into the mountains. They...

November 2021

November 29, 2021

Everything or Nothing

Every life within every generation must struggle between the appearance of nothing and the appearance...

November 22, 2021

What it Means to Perceive 1

Poetry is a portal, a means of perception. All art is. And just as we...

November 14, 2021

Grounded but Not Buried

I take my time, looking for what [lasts]… —Tao Ch’ien We are constantly challenged to...

November 03, 2021

Notice

Imagine a lantern in an open boat, the light flickering as the boat drifts in...

November 01, 2021

Keep Trying

Take off your situation and you are closer. Take off the story you’ve been...

October 2021

October 23, 2021

Grief

One of the great truths in this life is that if we know love, we...

October 17, 2021

Taken from the Nest

Since stepping out of the first cave, we have made pilgrimage, trying to find where...

October 11, 2021

The Truth and Grip of Feelings

Once awake, an essential path of learning is the art of being sensitive. No one...

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