Bearing Witness Posted on 05/02/2021 by Michael Gray In “Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom” a book by Ariel Burger, who was a teaching assistant and lifelong student of the man who...
Waiting by the Wayside Posted on 04/26/2021 by Michael Gray In my dream I’m waiting by the side of the road: I’m a half-eaten hotdog, flung out the window of a speeding car, lying...
The Truth about Crows Posted on 03/21/2021 by Michael Gray Franz Kafka’s aphorisms still speak to the reality in which we live. One observation, which ostensibly targets our playful, adamant cousins, the crows, strikes...
Beyond Limitation Posted on 02/22/2021 by Michael Gray “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...
Free at Last Posted on 12/24/2020 by Michael Gray 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 Posted on 12/14/2020 by Michael Gray “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 Posted on 09/21/2020 by Michael Gray 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 Posted on 08/31/2020 by Michael Gray 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 Posted on 08/17/2020 by Michael Gray “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 Posted on 07/20/2020 by Michael Gray Standing on the shore, perhaps on a cliff above crashing waves, where even the seagulls and ravens cruise far below, or right there at...