A Survivor at Large
Spring can be a time of passing on, a time when the recently living pack up and move into the memories of those left...
Category: Passages
Standard Bearer of Kindness
Kip Allen died last week. I think of him as the piper in a story he shared about a man who walked across a...
Life, Death, Life?
Today is Easter, one of two pivotal holidays in the Christian calendar, as all my weekly planners are telling me. Yesterday, at an SOS...
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...
A Pure World
“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
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
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
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
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
At this hour on a Sunday evening, I would ordinarily have finished the dishes, locked the front door and settled in with a book...