What Remains
“Sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out How much music you can still make With what you have left.” –Itzhak Perlman Over...
Tag: awareness
Four Horses at Four Gates
My father would have turned 113 this past Thursday. I took his support for our family for granted while he was alive. If he...
Seasonal Milestones
Have you ever felt that you need to recognize that something important for your happiness has gone missing before your eyes, and that you...
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...
Simple Insights
I had two insights this past week. They both seem as simple as to be hardly worth mentioning; but I don’t want to forget...
A Pain in the Neck
What causes an old memory to return, like Little Bo Peep’s sheep or like a painted horse spinning off a carousel we are surprised...
Cells Unite
I’m just one cell, reporting in from the field. Things are quiet for the moment, but the rumblings of animosity between various factions seems...
What Survives?
Mindfulness must be a wonderful quality to be able to call upon at will. In my experience, it seems that being aware of my...
Opportunities and Obligations.
It occurred to me this week that the distinction between “opportunity” and “obligation” is largely one of perspective. I awake each morning, and sometimes...
Pushing through the Sidewalk.
It’s interesting how exceptional capacities sometimes blossom out of exceptional difficulties. Perhaps such difficulties are hidden in each of us—unsuspected by others as we...