Mr. X and Mrs. G.
I don’t think often of Mr. Escobar, but he came to mind a few days ago when my writing group spent 12 minutes riffing...
Category: Companions in Time
Why Self-Interest Often Prevails
Intentions that are inclusive, holistic, and concerned about the well-being of our communities can have a hard time producing a clearly focused message, especially...
Poor Cousins of the True and the Good
This morning, a thought popped to the surface of the stream that seems to flow without cease through my mind—even when I am unaware...
A Rising Tide
Last week I met with some fellow writers, as I do twice a month. Looking back, I find myself wondering why it felt especially...
Glimmers of Light
“Aren’t we tired of seeing what is wrong in the world and having no way to address it? There is no profit in fighting,...
Spring Flowers in a Field
You can encounter an insight hundreds of times without it really catching hold in your mind–like a burr catches hold of your pant leg...
Freedom of Mind, Mind of Freedom
I doubt that I’m the only one who has felt like the mouse in Kafka’s “A Little Fable”: “ALAS”, said the mouse, “the world...
Hope is a Sad Child, standing in the Rain
“Joining with ‘others’ in ‘our one world’, united in native sympathy through the similarities of mind that we share as a species, we could...
Being in the Dark
“Deprived of full access to this living quality of being, the senses coarsen and the human spirit shrivels. Seeing only through the filters of...
A Kinder, Gentler “Animal Farm”
Unsettling truths about the human realm can be more palatable when delivered in the form of a parable. In animal stories, such as told...