A New Year’s Greeting
Our Hard-won Treasure I wonder why this doesn’t feel stranger than it does. Here I am, very early in the world, standing on the...
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Empty and Full
Several Sanskrit terms have made it into Western vocabularies. Some, such as karma and samsara, require no translation, and are considered by many to...
Be the Spider
When Phil (in “Groundhog Day”) tells Rita, “Be the hat” he has already shared with her that he is waking up every morning to...
Cells Unite
I’m just one cell, reporting in from the field. Things are quiet for the moment, but the rumblings of animosity between various factions seems...
Nature, Nurture and the Flickering Flame
We’re all born into circumstances and for our entire lives our experience is thwarted or facilitated by those circumstances. The twin influences of nature...