Animal Stories are Us Posted on 05/24/2018 by Michael Gray Unsettling truths about the human realm can be more palatable when delivered in the form of a parable. In animal stories, such as told...
Remembering Betty Posted on 05/17/2018 by Michael Gray Last weekend I attended a memorial gathering for Betty Senescu. Her passing at age 92 brought together at least a hundred people. Judging from...
The Weaver is Being Woven. Posted on 05/09/2018 by Michael Gray In my own life, I have experienced recurrent changes in how my eyes viewed my world: in 1968, after a fire expelled me from...
Communications from the Field Posted on 05/01/2018 by Michael Gray “To live your life is not to cross a field.” Hamlet poem in Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak The edition of “Dr. Zhivago” that showed...
My Bubble World Posted on 04/25/2018 by Michael Gray “Thoughts may arise like bubbles in a stream of water, but we are intent on entering the thought’s ‘bubble world’. From within that world...
What’s Next? Posted on 04/17/2018 by Michael Gray Light is showing up among the branches visible through my sunroom windows. Not enough to predict what kind of day it will be, but...
“Time—Enter Stage Right” Posted on 04/10/2018 by Michael Gray “But the plan of action is determined And the end irrevocably sealed. I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood: Life is not...
“The Gyre of Time” Posted on 04/05/2018 by Michael Gray “The culprit and the life giver is the dung and its smell of fresh air”, “Dr. Zhivago”, Boris Pasternak. Today, April 2. 2018, I...
“Playfulness of Thoughts” Posted on 03/28/2018 by Michael Gray This morning, while practicing “Playfulness of Thoughts”–an exercise in Dynamics of Time and Space (DTS)–I discovered just how ‘unplayful’ I’m feeling these days. This...
An Unanticipated Trip. Posted on 03/22/2018 by Michael Gray A man, who for several years hasn’t driven outside the radius that holds his grocery store and a few favorite restaurants, is planning a...