What am I Waiting For?
I was lingering beside the job board, long after the rush of job seekers had moved on. My eyes followed a man sweeping the...
Category: Companions in Time
Two Venturings Forth
I’ve just been published in two places: a book I’ve been working on for the past three years (“Winter Came Early; Reflections on Outliving...
Too Much or too Little
Would it be too much if I bring up Goldilocks again? She is such a looming figure of right conduct, and still has so...
Build It and They Will Come
Am I the only one who wonders how all those animals knew that there was a man building a gigantic boat on a hilltop...
Searching for What We Already Know
Here is the first paragraph of an essay of mine that has just been published in the Winter 2020 edition of Kosmos, Journal for...
Walking With My Gestalt
Walking our dogs every day, I reacquaint myself with how badly-trained we both are. I can’t blame the one I walk for the fact...
Truths of the Heart
The fairy tales and myths that have come down to us are fractured memories of a community and the problems that befell those who...
Why Can’t I Escape my Thoughts?
It’s certainly easier said than done, but I’ve begun to understand an ancient insight: that when I encounter circumstances that I am unable to...
Super Natural
I’ve just read an interesting book by Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey Kripal. The title, “Super Natural”, is deliberately distinguished from the word, “supernatural”, which...
Hardware or Software
It can take a while before I am ready to make a change. But after living with gathering inconvenience, the day sometimes arrives when...