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March 2021

March 08, 2021

Thinking She was Lost

She was standing in the aisle as the train bumped along the Hudson. She was...

March 01, 2021

Fidelity to the Journey

Confidence is not the swagger or certainty with which we convey what we know. It...

February 2021

February 22, 2021

Swayed In All Directions

I doze in the hammock, and this book of voices from long ago falls from...

February 15, 2021

Kinship

If you don’t know, then ask the moon in the sky. —Yuanwu Trying to...

February 08, 2021

Two Forms of Compassion

What is compassion but drifting in the immensity of life with an open heart? We...

February 01, 2021

The Small Lift

Our job while here is threefold. First, like a mountain that is steadfast in meeting...

January 2021

January 25, 2021

The Unseen Force of Spirit

As the unseen wind moves from the azalea to the young willow, the unseen force...

January 18, 2021

After the War

How can I be a bridge to help you cross what you need to cross?...

January 11, 2021

Wherever We Go

We live between the edge we look out from and the edge beyond which we...

January 04, 2021

Allegro 28

I happened into the cathedral downtown and heard serious, ancient song in Latin or Greek....

December 2020

December 28, 2020

Finding It

How will you ever find peace unless you yield to love? —Rabia If you...

December 21, 2020

Loving the Gateways

What you have to attempt [is] to be yourself. What you have to pray for...

December 14, 2020

Our Better Angels

The notion of “our better angels” was offered by Abraham Lincoln in 1861 in his...

December 07, 2020

The Agreement

Like someone who falls from a height into the water, I’m past the fall and...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

The Gold of Suffering

from Notes from the Pandemic The apple blossoms behind Susan’s studio are opening and the...

November 23, 2020

The Mending Quality of Life

The slightest nudge in the fabric of existence alters everything. The shift of an atom...

November 16, 2020

Not Great But True

I began as all young artists do—working toward some imagined greatness that might reveal itself...

November 09, 2020

One More Time

Every day, we are challenged to love what we’re given as much as what we...

November 02, 2020

Living a Making

When finding my way as a young man, I came home from college to have...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

Germs

Germs are microscopic cells that breakdown the structure of the life they enter. In the...

October 19, 2020

The Highest Ethic

Community is like a large mosaic… a fellowship of… people who together make God visible...

October 12, 2020

The Endless Invitation

The most unusual thing happened while walking Zuzu today. There was a thick shelf of...

October 05, 2020

Miracle and Tragedy

Sometimes, the life-giving downpour will snap a limb on its way to releasing spring. And...

September 2020

September 28, 2020

Fighting the Instrument

Often the instruments of change are not kind or just and the hardest openness of...

September 21, 2020

Longings for Worth

After almost seventy years, I confess that though I have struggled I have never been...

September 14, 2020

I Promise You

I was in a circle of those who climbed from the sea of trouble onto...

September 07, 2020

The Life of Care

As a fire needs wood, the soul needs care to burn strong and bright. And...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Moment of Lift

I was bearing up under a weight I could no longer see, when the exhalation...

August 24, 2020

Under All the Fierceness

When you can admit how heavy you are with sadness, then we can talk. Right now,...

August 17, 2020

Leaning In

I’ve sat in hundreds of cafés, watching lives pass by, each eager to meet someone,...

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