Looking Both Ways
We can’t help but compare ourselves with others—their accomplishments, their looks, their virtues. Perhaps we just need to be true to our inner self....
Author Archives: Michael Gray
May All Beings Be Well
Torn down enough already this morning (A poem by Ken Mckeon) To furnish a junkyard, The chained dogs, my New found friends, They bark...
“Avatar” versus “Star Wars”
As I look forward to watching the new Star Wars film, “The Force Awakens”, which is steadily breaking records set by James Cameron’s “Avatar”,...
Why I Keep Exploring the TSK Vision
“Suppose that the inspiration of new knowledge convinced us to open our clenched hand and let knowledge go free. Would we have lost anything?...
A Lost Tribe Weighs In
Jay turned onto Eastbound I40 and headed out of Albuquerque through Tijeras canyon. He enjoyed the drive through Tijeras, Edgewood, and past Moriarty, but...
Another Trip around the Sun (#2016)
(Excerpted from my memoir, “The Flying Caterpillar”, ABQ Press, 2013) As we get older and have more say in setting our own agendas, we...
Matin (a poem by Ken McKeon)
It’s Christmas morning in Albuquerque and Ken’s poem “Matin” shares a good-hearted wish for a new morning to dawn on a tired world. Where...
Two is the Loneliest Number
“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that...
Forrest Gump and Helen (by Pat Simmons)
Here are four short pieces written by Pat Simmons. I know Pat as a friend, writing buddy and the Executive Director of “Friends in...
Opportunities and Obligations.
It occurred to me this week that the distinction between “opportunity” and “obligation” is largely one of perspective. I awake each morning, and sometimes...