Tackling the Hardest Task First Posted on 08/20/2019 by Michael Gray I’ve been reading a book, titled “Caring”, in the past few months. And as might be expected it has a lot to say about...
Backing into Compassion Posted on 06/25/2019 by Michael Gray At a recent support group for bereaved parents, the facilitator, whose son died at least five years ago, said that in her experience the...
It is Good to Receive Posted on 05/27/2019 by Michael Gray We hear that it’s better to give than to receive; and my experience is that when I give of myself the world feels friendlier....
The Happy Prince Posted on 02/04/2019 by Michael Gray My mother was the main influence in my life, at least for the time I lived at home, but I don’t think that she...
Imbalance: an Inner Disharmony Posted on 01/23/2019 by Michael Gray My work environments for several decades have been places where there were more women than men. Sometimes this has been remarkably one-sided. True, I’m...
The Little Train that Can Posted on 01/15/2019 by Michael Gray Just as eight passenger cars standing in the station become one integrated train heading into the future, when the couplings pull tight and each...
It Takes a Train . . . Posted on 12/19/2018 by Michael Gray A sound somewhere in the neighborhood appeared before my awareness and I understood something illusive. I ordinarily hasten to fill in the gaps in...
Maybe Light My Fire Posted on 12/04/2018 by Michael Gray In the natural world, or at least when human ingenuity impinges upon it, we see moths flying into candle flames and hovering around porch...
Separation Anxiety Posted on 10/23/2018 by Michael Gray This morning I was doing an exercise called “The Object and its Glow”, which invited me to discover experientially that I (the viewing self)...
Diving into Time Posted on 10/19/2018 by Michael Gray Arriving at my sister’s house in Canada, for my first visit in a dozen years, an odd familiarity arose, mixed with a feeling of...