The Falling Leaves Posted on 06/04/2023 by Michael Gray When a friend passes on, we are likely to run into spaces in our thoughts and feelings where we realize that a touchstone is...
Charades for One Posted on 05/28/2023 by Michael Gray On the bus ride home from his weekly supper at the Rising Sun Café, he was only half listening to the sound of passing...
Stations along the Way Posted on 05/18/2023 by Michael Gray This morning I read a few sentences about the body’s “energy centers” (also called the “cakras”), which line up along the front of the...
A Survivor at Large Posted on 05/09/2023 by Michael Gray Spring can be a time of passing on, a time when the recently living pack up and move into the memories of those left...
Standard Bearer of Kindness Posted on 04/25/2023 by Michael Gray Kip Allen died last week. I think of him as the piper in a story he shared about a man who walked across a...
Life, Death, Life? Posted on 04/09/2023 by Michael Gray Today is Easter, one of two pivotal holidays in the Christian calendar, as all my weekly planners are telling me. Yesterday, at an SOS...
A Time Beyond my own Calendar Posted on 04/04/2023 by Michael Gray I don’t get out much, except for short excursions with a few friends, a few commitments (such as volunteering at the Road Runner Food...
Monday is Market Day Posted on 03/27/2023 by Michael Gray Barry thought he may still have vestiges of visual memory, although ‘memory’ didn’t seem the right word for what had survived from his first...
Before He Knows it Posted on 03/19/2023 by Michael Gray Words can evoke comforting feelings even if we don’t have a clear sense of what they mean. They can evoke the possibility of a...
A Pure World Posted on 03/12/2023 by Michael Gray “In this pure world, there is no sense of loss and of complicity in loss.” Dynamics of Time and Space, by Tarthang Tulku. This...