Companions in Time Archives

Wending Which Way

The two lanes of traffic streaming past each other on roads and interstates seem unrelated to each other, except in the sense that some...

Don’t get me wrong. I love words. Sometimes words feel like the inhalations and exhalations that mark the flowing stream of life. The time...

Recently at an SOS meeting, I was on the edges of an interesting conversation. I don’t want to invoke the details because we promise...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

I know everyone feels lost sometimes. That feeling of being lost seems an understandable consequence of trying to fit into a world that seems...

I’ve heard that we come into this world alone and will leave it alone. But far more real for me is the network of...

I was lingering beside the job board, long after the rush of job seekers had moved on. My eyes followed a man sweeping the...