Searching for Better Tenants
Humility is an experience of the commonality of all human beings. As we experience this commonality, our attitude toward life becomes light and open....
Category: Companions in Time
Little Boat, Little Boat
Riding along in my little boat I notice many others floating alongside. Some have sails, some have oars, and in some I can only...
Hocus Pocus, Bogus Focus
The other morning, I was watching Kiva, our cat, out in the back yard. Her focus was unwavering as she jumped from some blade...
Dancing in the Silence
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” Friedrich Nietzsche I don’t want...
Do Dolphins Dream?
I’ve met a human who has become important to me. He sits at the end of a long wooden dock in his metal chair...
Truths I have known
Some truths are anchored to the situations to which they pertain. Some truths are like a bird trying to get airborne, discovering its ability...
Three Manifestations, One Heart
I’ve always thought that Christianity is monotheist: one God above all. It seems that this Christian God is not only above all, watching every...
Another Duck in the Rain
A friend of mine told me the other day that he avoids saying he has Parkinson’s; and he is certain that his refusal to...
Losing Paradise
In the 1970’s, at a time when I had too much time on my hands, I composed this palindrome (in other words, it reads...
Foregiving Past Failures
Evidence of failure is all around and also within. But when we settle on someone to blame—either ourselves or someone else—we are soon stuck...