Life’s First Encounters Posted on 08/22/2022 by Michael Gray Last week, my mother would have been 104 years old. “Would have” because she died 32 years ago. I don’t know the exact day...
Taking Unfair Advantage Posted on 08/15/2022 by Michael Gray Once upon a time, there was a tribe of two–legged beings. They became the dominant species on their planet, prevailing over those with more...
Appreciation in the Midst of it All Posted on 08/07/2022 by Michael Gray “The real mystery is not somewhere else. It’s right here in what we call reality, or truth, or daily life. It’s in confusion and...
Tomorrow Finally Came Posted on 07/31/2022 by Michael Gray While I was living on Planet Earth, which was until quite recently, I never referred to ‘tomorrow’ as anything other than a period of...
Smaller Portions Posted on 07/22/2022 by Michael Gray I can’t really blame my wife for suggesting that we could do a “bone broth” diet together. She was just proposing a solution to...
A Brief History of Ingratitude Posted on 07/10/2022 by Michael Gray Once upon a time, there was a kingdom in a hidden valley where soft rain fell each night and refreshing breezes swept away the...
A Circling Bird Posted on 07/05/2022 by Michael Gray This morning, it feels like an idle boast to claim that I move backwards in time, as I claimed in my previous post. When...
Looking Forward to Something Posted on 06/18/2022 by Michael Gray I feel I move backwards into time. The future, unseen, is at my back and I can only see the past, rising up before...
Communion in a Grand Cathedral Posted on 06/09/2022 by Michael Gray I realize it’s ludicrous to think that I can explore ‘community’ and “the world” in a blog. But, since a longer treatise wouldn’t be...
Black Boxes I’ve Known Posted on 05/30/2022 by Michael Gray “Our ‘knowing’ is fresh, sharp, and spontaneous. It never needs to reduce the virgin quality of experience to something that is ‘known’, and therefore...