Passages Archives - MICHAEL GRAY

Take Two

Two by two we walk Under the canopy of the heavens Hoping the heavens that give us heart Are watching and wondering what we’ll...

“It’s important to reawaken the mystery of dreams that visit every life. They have much to teach us about where we are on our...

What are we supposed to do when we receive an e-mail from someone whose name we don’t know, who shares their appreciation for something...

“Grief is always, in some way, accompanying us . . .Sorrow is a sustained note in the song of being alive. To be human...

If we think about being thankful one day a year, that leaves another 364 days for us to wake up to our familiar accumulations...

Bella, our sweet miniature Aussie taught us love, again. You can’t learn that lesson too often. She came into our lives 14 months ago,...

Over time I’ve begun to notice, on my journey through these endless tunnels, that I sometimes see things that remind me of things I’ve...

I like river images as a way to invoke the flowing connection between seemingly separate things in life. I grew up beside the Saint...

I think it’s fair to say that everyone alive today, if they have their full faculties and feel connected with other people, animals, or...

Anyone who keeps a journal, as I do, or has written a memoir, is familiar with writing from the “first person singular” point of...