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Yearly Archives: 2016

Better to Cope and Hope–than Mope

Posted on 12/26/2016 by Michael Gray
The Pathetic Hopeful Poem–Ken McKeon We need to change, Change utterly, There’s this Grotesquery afoot, A club footed staggering Eight-foot tall guy. His head...
Mailbag alimony, belief, change, hope, hunger, ignorance, man of the year, need, wall

Hope is a Sad Child, standing in the Rain

Posted on 12/20/2016 by Michael Gray
“Joining with ‘others’ in ‘our one world’, united in native sympathy through the similarities of mind that we share as a species, we could...
Companions in Time abuse, appreciation, Atlantic Monthly, Facebook, fake news stories, holocaust, hope, James Fallows, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, trauma

Bridges Made of Dream

Posted on 12/13/2016 by Michael Gray
Lying in bed, I realized that I was either just waking up or still inside some kind of dream. In the dream–let’s call it...
Timely Aging air, Balance, bridges, compassion, dreams, Earth, embodying, fire, joy, loving kindness, Noble Eightfold Path, sharing, sleep, understanding, water

Being in the Dark

Posted on 12/06/2016 by Michael Gray
“Deprived of full access to this living quality of being, the senses coarsen and the human spirit shrivels. Seeing only through the filters of...
Companions in Time beauty, compassion, fiction, hopeful, joy, negative, Paradise, Planet Earth, Revelations of Mind, short stories, understanding

An America I’ve Never Seen

Posted on 11/29/2016 by Michael Gray
{In my friend Paul’s journal, written during his train trip to Albuquerque 22 years ago, I find a universal human story. I also get...
Mailbag Albuquerque-NM, Chicago, Devil's Lake-North Dakota, East Glacier Lodge-Montana, Everett-Wash., Hutchinson-Kansas, Joliette-Ill, La Junta-Co, Minot-North Dakota, Trinidad-Colorado, Wenatchee-Wash, Wolf Point-Montana

The Day has Come

Posted on 11/22/2016 by Michael Gray
“The recognition of not-understanding is the opening to understanding.” Revelations of Mind, p219 It seems that we all search for a place in the...
Time, Space, and Knowledge alienation, dreams, election, freedom, future, hope, past, Revelations of Mind, stock market, Trump

A Kinder, Gentler “Animal Farm”

Posted on 11/15/2016 by Michael Gray
Unsettling truths about the human realm can be more palatable when delivered in the form of a parable. In animal stories, such as told...
Companions in Time Aesop, Animal Farm, The Arabian Nights, The Bible, Walt Disney, Wind in the Willows

The Caterpillar and the Phoenix

Posted on 11/09/2016 by Michael Gray
I live in a nest woven out of all the twigs and pieces of string–the maxims and identifications–that I have picked up over a...
Companions in Time animals, autism, education, empathy, Evolution, home, isolation, nest, Temple Grandin, transformation

Longing to Belong

Posted on 11/02/2016 by Michael Gray
I had trouble sleeping last night and I tried a technique I learned years ago—designed to build a bridge between waking and sleeping consciousness....
Time, Space, and Knowledge consciousness, fasting, Franz Kafka, holocaust, longing to belong, sleeping, The Hunger Artist, waking

The Least of These

Posted on 10/25/2016 by Michael Gray
You don’t have to be a practicing Christian to wish that our society was doing a better job living out Christ’s concern for children...
Timely Aging Christ, education, Let them come unto me, mental health, PTSD, society, the least of these, veterans, war
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