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February 2013

February 04, 2013

Care

Read Mark's weekly reflections on The Huffington Post. It’s a recurring lesson that, try as...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

Meeting My Selves

Read Mark's weekly reflections on The Huffington Post. We are all blessed to live more...

November 2012

November 06, 2012

Returning to Where I’ve Never Been

Read Mark's weekly reflections on The Huffington Post. It’s very human to have an understanding,...

October 2012

October 01, 2012

Below Our Strangeness

Read Mark's weekly reflections on The Huffington Post. I believe we are all connected at...

September 2012

September 17, 2012

The Moment of Poetry

Read Mark's weekly reflections on The Huffington Post. When I was younger, I tried very...

September 10, 2012

The Sway of It All

Read Mark's weekly reflections on The Huffington Post. We tend to be preoccupied with difficulty...

September 04, 2012

Being Carried

Read Mark's weekly reflections on The Huffington Post. This week’s poem is also about...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

These Human Days

Read Mark's weekly reflections on The Huffington Post. Being human is a gritty mystery. We...

July 2012

July 02, 2012

Years from It All

I think we loved so blindly, every one of us meaning to explore the other’s...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Along the Flyway

Entering a field, our dog lowers her head and sniffs around for the longest time....

June 11, 2012

Where We Meet

Two weeks before his daughter died they went to the movies. She wanted to see...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Pathways

I don’t know why I was born with this belief in something deeper and larger...

May 22, 2012

The Ocean of Being

If I don’t try to behold the Universe, to see how the Universe holds me,...

May 08, 2012

After Danse Russe*

A hundred years ago, a composer wrote music about a puppet who comes alive when...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

My Favorite Glass

You broke my favorite glass. Now you feel bad. It was my favorite because I...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

Mother at 85

We haven’t spoken in years. My father says her memory is shrinking. After five minutes...

March 19, 2012

Listening to Others

Still enough and we break surface like small fish wanting to eat light. In that...

March 05, 2012

The Empty Necklace

We each have one, made over a lifetime of the empty moments in between, when...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Thinking Like a Butterfly

Monday I was told I was good. I felt relieved. Tuesday I was ignored. I...

February 13, 2012

The Oldest Conversation

I wonder, will anyone recognize us without our anger or our fear? And if we...

January 2012

January 16, 2012

The Poems

When starting out, I was so excited that anything showed up, I thought I was...

November 2011

November 21, 2011

On and Off the Path

It’s the light above the path that points to the path that makes it a...

July 2011

July 05, 2011

Regarding Peace

It was pressing like a weight on my mind and I sought his advice. He...

June 2011

June 13, 2011

In the Back of the Eye

What the heart sees from under its break is always true. When I had cancer...

June 06, 2011

The Better Way to Go

One at a time, they come off the plane: looking for someone, arriving alone, returning,...

May 2011

May 30, 2011

Her Name Meant Light

—Forgive me. I loved a woman who loved the earth. I met a man who...

May 24, 2011

Signs of the One Essence

The tops of clouds that no one sees illuminated by the sun. The inside of...

May 09, 2011

For Those Trying Too Hard

Don’t be harsh with yourself. The oar hits a rock and splits. We find a...

May 02, 2011

Stairs Made of Water

Imagine climbing stairs made of water to a doorway of light, through which we both...

April 2011

April 25, 2011

I Promise You

I was in a circle of those who climbed from the sea of their lives...

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