2024 - MICHAEL GRAY

Water Trickling from a Rock

This morning, while ‘meditating’, I turned on the lamp beside the couch where I sit, not once but twice. Both times, I hoped to...

As a Canadian living in the U.S., my sons automatically inherited Canadian citizenship. But when George W Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 under false...

This morning, I have my annual physical. It’ll be the first time I’ll see my primary face-to-face in twelve months, although she’s been involved...

It’s not just that I am stardust from an exploding supernova that cloaked our planet with a tapestry of living beings. It’s not just...

I just finished reading a book by Sue Monk Kidd: “The Book of Longings: A Novel”. It tells the story of Jesus in a...

The weariness, and worse, Of living in An unbalanced mind My heart afraid to look How can a heart be free How can truth...

I don’t know when I started to wonder if I have a choice in how I view myself–as a creature living in this world....

As we look out at our world, near and far–at family, friends, acquaintances, the families of friends and friends of our family, at others...

I’m in a speedboat churning through the water at full throttle, crossing a lake. This lake seems to be larger than I thought. Near...

My memories usually show up as oft-told reruns of the small handful of things I actively remember from my past life. The recollections that...