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January 2020

January 13, 2020

Prosperity

Living with an open heart, all is real. And we become briefly all that we...

January 07, 2020

Listen Carefully

You know someone loves you when they put the moon in your tea to calm...

December 2019

December 23, 2019

The Necessary Art

Each of us is called to listen our way into the underlying truth that connects...

December 16, 2019

The Unexpected Dimension

In 1514, a young Michelangelo worked hard to sculpt his version of Christ the Redeemer....

December 09, 2019

Life Marks Us Up

I was stranded in Washington D.C. due to a storm in Chicago. It was sunny...

December 02, 2019

The Practice of Reading

In our modern age, the noble art of reading has been truncated and compromised. Today,...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

The Energy of Hope

I believe that teaching, reading, and writing all have to do with searching. Each involves...

November 18, 2019

What it Means to See

To see takes time like to have a friend takes time. —Georgia O’Keeffe I...

November 12, 2019

Not Great but True

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise,...

November 04, 2019

The Quarter Turn

I suddenly knew I was looking at it from the wrong angle and I gave...

October 2019

October 28, 2019

Becoming a Poet

I started writing in high school after my first love dumped me. I was devastated....

October 22, 2019

Bearing Witness

Bearing witness is one of the primary ways that human beings hold each other up...

October 15, 2019

Releasing the Divine

There are two beautiful notions that speak to our innate yearning to release and be...

October 07, 2019

Feel the Silence

Wherever I go, I’m blessed to climb with others into the interior we all share....

September 2019

September 30, 2019

One Living Sense

Perhaps God is an infinite secret hiding in the open waiting for each of us...

September 23, 2019

The Aperture of Intuition

The opposite of rational is not irrational but intuitive. And while the mind and heart...

September 16, 2019

Yearning to Be

We don’t create to achieve or make history, no matter how we’re schooled or what...

September 04, 2019

All We Can Hope For

I’ve known this world in all its splendor and breakage for a lifetime. Or has...

August 2019

August 26, 2019

The Purpose of Will

As the sun never stops shining no matter the weather, our heart is an inner...

August 19, 2019

A Lifelong Process

When the question arises, “Why write? Why create?” I’m drawn to ask, “Why breathe? Why...

August 14, 2019

The River of Light

Both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo left a trail of unfinished art greater than anyone...

August 05, 2019

The Thread

Thirty-four years ago, in my mid-thirties, I was working hard at becoming a good poet,...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

In Our Nature

As skin will stretch and mend a cut, kindness will heal all our divisions in...

July 22, 2019

I Affirm

(for Joel Elkes) Already someone is asking who you were. And I well up....

July 15, 2019

This Tenderness

We keep looking for a home though each of us is a home. And no...

July 02, 2019

The Majestic Turn

One of the great masters of the long walk through time is the Earth itself,...

June 2019

June 24, 2019

Speechless

I pause under that summer tree, the one that feels like a friend, as my...

June 17, 2019

The Range of Our Compassion

Dogs can hear well beyond the range of human hearing. In California, it’s been reported...

June 10, 2019

The Immersion

Now that I am here, I am somewhat ashamed at my long insistence on there....

June 04, 2019

Over Many Months

After ten years of swimming, I stopped when Eleanor died. She was one of several...

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