Vacuuming Space
It’s been two years since we moved two miles north of our previous home, where we lived for a decade. When we moved, we...
Category: Time, Space, and Knowledge
The Elusiveness of Feeling
If you’re like me, you’re never entirely sure how much your feelings and perceptions reflect the circumstances in which you find yourself and how...
Four Directions
I’ve attended ceremonies where, in the Native American tradition, the four directions are invoked before an event gets underway: a poem of homage to...
One Word, Many Meanings
We speak of the future as if we know what we mean; most often envisioning a place where events wait until they “come to...
Living in Time
We may have noticed that we only experience what is already past, since it takes time for sensations and perceptions to be recognized, identified...
That Feeling
Of being strung out on the rack of the actual, Like well-worn garments hung out to dry. Are those shirts and jeans the ones...
Remembering the Past
I have to confess that I don’t really remember the past. Of course, images and whole scenes that pretend to be of past experiences...
Dancing with the World
“Without rhythms, there would be no experience, but rhythms do not have to do with experience unfolding in time. The movement goes deeper. It’s...
Feeling Connected
A thought that was also a feeling just arrived, unbidden, which immediately felt at home in my mind: Sometimes a particular activity—which like all...
Into the Light
The question on everyone’s lips is: “Did I run into the light or did the light run into me?” This question takes different forms...