The Hunger Artist
The past few mornings, when I get up, it’s with appreciation for having simple things to do—making coffee, firing up the distiller and humidifiers,...
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Coming Home
Walking on a foreign shore, Mist intermingling with each breath, A traveler can’t understand How at home he feels. With no next moment, And...
The Little Engine
“Until now, I have not been treated well, not by myself and not by the circumstances and conditions I have chosen to accept as...
Rivers I have known
“We care about the lakes and the mountains and the sky, for we know that they are our progenitors.” Caring, page 150. This unfamiliar...
What Can I learn from it all?
In the arena of international relations, ‘friends’ seem to be defined as whomever is on the other side of those who are perceived as...
When Two or More Gather
I’m on the outside looking in when it comes to practicing any religious orthodoxy. I suppose I picked that up from my mother, who...
Stations along the Way
This morning I read a few sentences about the body’s “energy centers” (also called the “cakras”), which line up along the front of the...
The Hour has Grown Late
I had been on this planet for less than a single turn around its sun, when I knew that my predecessor had fallen to...
Searching for What We Already Know
Here is the first paragraph of an essay of mine that has just been published in the Winter 2020 edition of Kosmos, Journal for...
Searching for Better Tenants
Humility is an experience of the commonality of all human beings. As we experience this commonality, our attitude toward life becomes light and open....