Elder Brother
Among indigenous peoples of South and North America—alongside core communities and scattered vestiges of civilizations which existed long before conquistadors arrived in 1498–the Kogi...
Author Archives: Michael Gray
Original Thinking
We all know that polluting the land, the water, and the air—and treating fellow creatures as unfeeling resources to be exploited–is wrong and unsustainable....
“Inside Knowledge” (a Review)
Tottering between stressful agitation and energy-draining repetition, sometimes we feel like a spinning top and sometimes like a winter glove frozen in a snow...
A Crisis of Knowledge
Decades ago, sitting in a YMCA room in Calgary, Alberta, I read “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was a time in my...
Revising Our Narrative Arcs
We don’t have to scratch too far beneath the surface to see that the stories we tell ourselves affect how we experience our lives....
Easter Lilies
What a strange world we live in. How many of us try to live by the advice given in St. Matthew 6: “28: And...
Echosaurus.
Water Fish, Wind Bird, and Gaia are three ancient guardians of Planet Earth. But Gaia (who watches over the land and all that grows...
Seeing Light in the Dark
I/ Loom Of Light —a poem by Ken Mckeon A loom of light, of a coastal city, say San Diego Years ago on a...
Collaboration
Did the first egg roll down the hill, hatch, and then cross the road? Or did the first chicken cross the road and lay...
My Body is Written in Shorthand
One day last month, sitting on the couch and reading about how Space is more fundamental than anything that appears in it, an image...