At Badger’s House.
Ralph Waldo Emerson made the observation, in his essay, “Prudence”, that if you don’t repair your roof on a sunny day, you’ll be running...
Author Archives: Michael Gray
Morning Posting (A Poem by Ken McKeon)
Morning Posting Ingredients: Strong early coffee, A functional breath (However ragged That breath might be), A shard of a feeling, At least a fragment...
Meaning Sits at the Back of the Bus
“Knowledge is understood to apply only in the objective realm; in the subjective realm of desires and feelings, knowledge has no role to play....
Stories We Tell Ourselves
“For example, viewed as a ‘border phenomena’, ‘shadow’ at once brings into play the dynamic interaction of ‘light’ and ‘opaque substance’. Again, psychology can...
Dialogue is not a One Way Street
A geometry of communication came into my mind the other morning. I was thinking about how a book, written by a local author who...
“Good Greens” in the “Field of Space”
While pondering how everything arises “together” in space, I was reminded of a poem I wrote while I was still living in Canada, which...
Dietary Considerations
“My God, I knew it,” came from the other room. A moment later, his wife, Emily, entered his bedroom with the morning newspaper in...
Up Ahead, Going On, Over With
We’re always in the midst of things. Even if we feel that life has shoved us off to one side, and we are spinning...
Adieu, Ann Paden.
The news that Ann Paden has died arrived this week—shared among mutual friends and in a caring memorial written by her son on Facebook:...
Mythic Mountain
We are Elder Brother and our mountain is the navel of the world. To the north and to the south, Younger Brother is free...