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Yearly Archives: 2015

Another Trip around the Sun (#2016)

Posted on 12/29/2015 by Michael Gray
(Excerpted from my memoir, “The Flying Caterpillar”, ABQ Press, 2013) As we get older and have more say in setting our own agendas, we...
Timely Aging future, New Year, past, planning, present, river of life, s, Stream of consciousness, The Flying Caterpillar, unknown future

Matin (a poem by Ken McKeon)

Posted on 12/25/2015 by Michael Gray
It’s Christmas morning in Albuquerque and Ken’s poem “Matin” shares a good-hearted wish for a new morning to dawn on a tired world.  Where...
Mailbag Christmas, Morning

Two is the Loneliest Number

Posted on 12/22/2015 by Michael Gray
“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that...
Time, Space, and Knowledge collaboration, Gurdjieff, knowledge, love, reconciliation, space, Tao, time, wisdom, Yang, Yin

Forrest Gump and Helen (by Pat Simmons)

Posted on 12/08/2015 by Michael Gray
Here are four short pieces written  by Pat Simmons.  I know Pat as a friend, writing buddy and the Executive Director of “Friends in...
Mailbag ALS, Forrest Gump, Friends in Time, Lou Gehrig's Disease, mind, MS, Tooth cavities, water

Opportunities and Obligations.

Posted on 12/03/2015 by Michael Gray
It occurred to me this week that the distinction between “opportunity” and “obligation” is largely one of perspective. I awake each morning, and sometimes...
Companions in Time "Shift into Freedom", awareness, Buddhism, freedom, Loch Kelly, mind, obligations, opportunities, science, spirituality, thinking

A Tree Knows.

Posted on 11/24/2015 by Michael Gray
“It’s time,” says the tree and proceeds to drop its leaves–no church bells needed to ring the congregation to prayer. I sit with a...
Timely Aging arrival, Earth, fall, leave-taking, leaves, light, moon, New Mexico, ocean, summer, sun, sunlight, time, tree, winter

(November News from the human realm)

Posted on 11/20/2015 by Michael Gray
November crests, and its dark wave (by Ken McKeon) Closes out what’s left of the morning, It draws light back To its former haunts,...
Mailbag find the heart, Heaven, Hell, hungers, ignorance, know it deeply, light, loss, pain, pity, sea, stars, tears

Where am I?  When am I?

Posted on 11/10/2015 by Michael Gray
Asking ourselves “who am I?” rarely moves us beyond the perspective of the familiar, for the simple reason that we see ourselves through the...
Timely Aging aging, comfort, daily life, energy, integration, new, old, opportunity, path, spaciousness, time, unfamiliar

Pushing through the Sidewalk.

Posted on 11/04/2015 by Michael Gray
It’s interesting how exceptional capacities sometimes blossom out of exceptional difficulties.  Perhaps such difficulties are hidden in each of us—unsuspected by others as we...
Companions in Time ADD, awareness, Dyslexia, Edison, Edmund Wilson, Einstein, Greek, John Lennon, learning differences, Odysseus, Oedipus, Philoctetes, Sophocles, Superman, The Wound and the Bow

Pop-up Timer.

Posted on 10/28/2015 by Michael Gray
My mind comes fully equipped with certainties, which I could probably challenge and thereby see things differently.  But what would that actually accomplish?  Why...
Time, Space, and Knowledge "Groundhog Day", cycle, cyclical time, day, flow of time, George Santayana, linear time, month, Punxsutawney, repetition, sequential time, time, week, year
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