Beyond Limitation
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”—Albert Einstein. The limit for which Einstein is probably best known is that the speed of...
Category: Passages
Free at Last
My friend, Foster Hall, died this week, after 19 years living on a ventilator at the VA Hospital. Some of you will remember that...
Life is a Drifting Cloud
“Life happens while we’re making other plans”,“The best laid plans of mice and men go awry”. Why does life so often sidetrack our plans?...
The Dreaming of the Sands
We can examine the sinew and bones of experience for their secrets, but it may be that the mystery of time is to be...
Crossing the Bridge we’re on
We’re always already crossing some bridge, but the bridges we most often notice are in the distance, like mirages in the desert. We imagine...
A Tiny Gate
“Here, at the very ground of becoming, we might find a tiny gate into a way of knowing that is not flat and one-dimensional,...
Feeling at Ease
Standing on the shore, perhaps on a cliff above crashing waves, where even the seagulls and ravens cruise far below, or right there at...
Only Water
The little boy I can’t remember would be dead now but for a neighbor lady who, according to a newspaper article in the Barre,...
Fire and Water, June 24th.
As I prepared to flip my calendar from June 2020 to July, I saw that Wednesday, June 24, is still a holiday in Quebec,...
Summertime, Summertime.
On this the first day of summer, I’m wondering why nothing seems to be arising to greet the solstice. Spring comes with a calling...