Passages Archives - MICHAEL GRAY

Before He Knows it

Words can evoke comforting feelings even if we don’t have a clear sense of what they mean. They can evoke the possibility of a...

“In this pure world, there is no sense of loss and of complicity in loss.” Dynamics of Time and Space, by Tarthang Tulku. This...

There are at least two ways to enter the field of imagination so that something can unfurl its wings there. We can develop a...

Let me count the ways in which the world eludes enumeration and understanding. Trying to hold a steady image feels like peering into a...

The gods of the Ancient Greeks, still invoked by the children of Gaia thousands of cycles around the Sun later—Hermes, Zeus, Apollo and all...

All morning, I could hear light rain rapping against the sunroom roof, tapping out a rhythm to accompany the melody of a windchime. It’s...

At this hour on a Sunday evening, I would ordinarily have finished the dishes, locked the front door and settled in with a book...

Silence doesn’t echo itself. It doesn’t create copies of itself. Silence waits for us to slow down enough that we can hear the deep...

While I was living on Planet Earth, which was until quite recently, I never referred to ‘tomorrow’ as anything other than a period of...

Writing a memoir can be as simple as taking a stroll through the neighborhood, and is often undertaken for similar reasons: we’re looking for...