Can I Believe my Eyes?
What are we supposed to do when we receive an e-mail from someone whose name we don’t know, who shares their appreciation for something...
Another Year
I stopped making New Years Resolutions years ago when I realized that the part of me that pronounced intentions for the future was not...
Juncture in Time
I don’t know how much it’s a sign of the connections I have made in life and how much a symptom of the times...
The Edge of Sorrow
“Grief is always, in some way, accompanying us . . .Sorrow is a sustained note in the song of being alive. To be human...
Love Shows the Way
If we think about being thankful one day a year, that leaves another 364 days for us to wake up to our familiar accumulations...
A Few of my Favorite Things
Today is a day when feeling thankful is in the air and on the airways. Of course, we would be wise to treat every...
Vacuuming Space
It’s been two years since we moved two miles north of our previous home, where we lived for a decade. When we moved, we...
The Elusiveness of Feeling
If you’re like me, you’re never entirely sure how much your feelings and perceptions reflect the circumstances in which you find yourself and how...
Four Directions
I’ve attended ceremonies where, in the Native American tradition, the four directions are invoked before an event gets underway: a poem of homage to...
Ministry for the Future
I’m aware that by writing a review of a book I am only 30% through, I risk losing my motivation to continue reading it....