Working—Inside and Outside
In the early years of my working life, the main context in which I felt engaged and fulfilled was when I was learning a...
Travelling Companions
When I left Montreal in the 1970’s, I brought a book with me that some of my Montreal friends were reading. I never got...
Is it me or is it the World?
Something happened last week. And I don’t know whether it was a final shoe being dropped to join a hundred other already fallen shoes,...
A Close Call
It only amounted to an hour mopping up with towels, inside and outside the fridge; and as with most close calls, the episode has...
Unexpected Consequences
We live inside the modern idea that, as an individual, we should be able to chart a course that gives us a chance to...
Learning Together
Together in this unsought community, We listen to each other’s stories, nodding, Understanding, remembering our own. As a facilitator, I mostly just listen And...
Sharing the Weight
Over the course of a week, they moved a 500-pound stone up a steep hill at the Zen community that was hosting their retreat,...
A Wider Winnowing
During this time of decline when so much is shrinking: friends dying and for the most part not being replaced; the public exercise of...
Free Radicals (expanded version)
Like a maple tree, our bodies grow from a seed; gathering stellar dust and organic nutrients found in their planetary environment into a trunk...
Free Radicals
Like a maple tree, our bodies grow from a seed; gathering stellar dust and organic nutrients found in the planetary environment into a trunk...