How to Build a Home
There are at least two ways to enter the field of imagination so that something can unfurl its wings there. We can develop a...
Author Archives: Michael Gray
A Long-Ago Memory
I felt the vibration of the ship’s engines through the deckchair arms and through the railing against which I was leaning. Without taking my...
Let me Count the Ways
Let me count the ways in which the world eludes enumeration and understanding. Trying to hold a steady image feels like peering into a...
One Truth too Many
For the past several centuries, I have become lackadaisical about maintaining my cover. Once it became clear that I had to move to a...
Denial: Not just a River in Egypt
When we are incredulous at what others believe, because for us the ‘facts’ are clear and unambiguous, we probably aren’t in touch with the...
Knowledge of Freedom
“We may notice changes in ourselves, our children, and in people around us, but the deeper meaning of these changes escapes us.”—Knowledge of Freedom:...
All the Math we Need to Know
Don’t we all sometimes look in a direction that is not a point on any compass? Don’t we keep drawing the measure of a...
Three Steps from the Edge
For much of my life, I was nervous around heights. That’s why I took up hang gliding. It took some determined work and a...
Gaia Wept
The gods of the Ancient Greeks, still invoked by the children of Gaia thousands of cycles around the Sun later—Hermes, Zeus, Apollo and all...
Sharing the Dark
A man who had been blind since birth was sitting in the waiting area, listening for the announcement that his flight was ready to...