Before He Knows it Posted on 03/19/2023 by Michael Gray 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...
A Pure World Posted on 03/12/2023 by Michael Gray “In this pure world, there is no sense of loss and of complicity in loss.” Dynamics of Time and Space, by Tarthang Tulku. This...
How to Build a Home Posted on 02/19/2023 by Michael Gray 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 Posted on 02/08/2023 by Michael Gray Let me count the ways in which the world eludes enumeration and understanding. Trying to hold a steady image feels like peering into a...
Gaia Wept Posted on 12/10/2022 by Michael Gray 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...
The Air is so Still Posted on 11/13/2022 by Michael Gray 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...
A Sudden Walk Posted on 10/10/2022 by Michael Gray At this hour on a Sunday evening, I would ordinarily have finished the dishes, locked the front door and settled in with a book...
Is Silence the Answer? Posted on 09/18/2022 by Michael Gray 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...
Tomorrow Finally Came Posted on 07/31/2022 by Michael Gray While I was living on Planet Earth, which was until quite recently, I never referred to ‘tomorrow’ as anything other than a period of...
How to Write a Memoir Posted on 05/24/2022 by Michael Gray 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...