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April 08, 2024

How It Happens

Things you never imagine come to pass and your life becomes a crucible in which...

April 01, 2024

Back to You

You would have been 102 today and I wonder what you would say now that...

March 2024

March 25, 2024

Intrinsic Brightness

You can lose yourself in love or find yourself. What we love can become everything...

March 18, 2024

It Carries On

Both my grandfathers had a hard life. Yet both loved life. Both loved people. Each...

March 11, 2024

Basho’s Gift

After walking days to meet Basho, a young man bowed and asked respectfully, “Why poetry?”...

March 04, 2024

Pirouettes

Some days, the simplest tasks seem weighty and endless: make the bed, tuck in the...

February 2024

February 26, 2024

The Wind Phone

On March 11, 2011, a mammoth earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that wreaked havoc in...

February 19, 2024

Never Quite Ready

Despite the things that crack and break, there are these unexpected moments of calm, like...

February 12, 2024

A Posse of Kindness

At the party, I overheard you say: “I want to help but don’t know how.”...

February 05, 2024

The Practice Before the Practice

There is always a practice before the practice; a sitting before the incomprehensible long enough...

January 2024

January 29, 2024

Spiritual Physics

The prophet Zarathustra, whose name means undiluted star, said that gravity is the irrefutable force...

January 22, 2024

The Art of Retrieval

When I say that I retrieve the poems, I mean I am part of a...

January 15, 2024

How to Empty

This is how it happens. Everything runs smoothly till suddenly the body, like a car,...

January 08, 2024

Light in the Barn

Another great paradox is how the soul, the most intimate of all our connections to...

January 02, 2024

Slipping Out of the Net

The Japanese word for emancipation, todatsu, means “a fish slipping out of the net.” It...

December 2023

December 26, 2023

Refinding the Oneness

When humans forgot the Oneness that Binds them, Zeus became so discouraged that he abdicated...

December 18, 2023

The Miseducation of the Self

We are mistaught that the self is all about us, when the self that is...

December 11, 2023

Quivering Angels

After we die, we weigh twenty-one grams less. This is the weight of wakefulness, light...

December 04, 2023

Mercy by the Sea

Like those stone islands close to the surface, that show at low tide but are...

November 2023

November 27, 2023

My Love

A lone remaining leaf trembles in the early air like the one soft memory of...

November 20, 2023

The Inner Critic

It is natural to want to improve, to work toward excellence and mastery of what...

November 13, 2023

The What Stories Are Made Of

What if we misheard our original instruction? What if, rather than turning everything we touch...

November 06, 2023

The Ledge Within

As I stepped into the shuttle to the airport hotel, I noticed two women who...

October 2023

October 30, 2023

For Kenzie

Before we buy tickets, before we drive and park and fill the theatre, the dancer...

October 23, 2023

Lifting Veils

In my twenties, I lived under a veil of neediness that came from feeling unworthy. ...

October 16, 2023

To Wander About On Foot

When walking, I thought  of all the legendary walkers:  of Plato wandering with his  students...

October 09, 2023

Once More For You

In our seventies, we walk  the streets of New York  one more time, stopping  to...

October 02, 2023

Practicing Devotion

  Pluck a string on a harp  and let the note ring.     Already, you...

September 2023

September 25, 2023

A Soft Story

  On this ordinary day, he woke with a terrible sense that something was missing....

September 18, 2023

The River of Life

   Since we first saw a bison on the prehistoric plain and it seemed to...

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