The Ebb and Flow of Memory Posted on 01/16/2018 by Michael Gray This morning, like a migrating bird landing on a branch and immediately taking off again, a fragment of memory came back. It was from...
Balancing on a Slowly Sinking Fulcrum Posted on 12/05/2017 by Michael Gray I expect that the tug-of-war I often feel—between inner and outer calls for me to be involved in something—is a common one. There is...
Leaning in our Direction Posted on 10/06/2017 by Michael Gray In spite of our practical certainty that the world we live in exists independently of our perceptions of it, it seems likely that what...
Sorry that my Thank You card is late Posted on 08/21/2017 by Michael Gray From my journal entry of 8/18/17: “My mother would have been 99 today”. Perhaps that thought set me to imagining myself talking with people...
What Survives? Posted on 04/25/2017 by Michael Gray Mindfulness must be a wonderful quality to be able to call upon at will. In my experience, it seems that being aware of my...
Seventy, And Not Counting Posted on 03/21/2017 by Michael Gray ON SO MANY OF US TURNING 70 (A poetic salvo across the bow of time, by Kip Allen) We all act so bold. We...
Crossing the Rubicon Posted on 02/28/2017 by Michael Gray Sometimes we turn down a new road, with little idea how momentous the consequences will be. Thank goodness that’s possible. “What we call ‘the...
Humor Hold the Door Posted on 01/31/2017 by Michael Gray I meet with a small group of writers a couple of times a month and we write for a few minutes, prompted by a...
Bridges Made of Dream Posted on 12/13/2016 by Michael Gray Lying in bed, I realized that I was either just waking up or still inside some kind of dream. In the dream–let’s call it...
The Least of These Posted on 10/25/2016 by Michael Gray You don’t have to be a practicing Christian to wish that our society was doing a better job living out Christ’s concern for children...