Taking Comfort Where We Can Posted on 02/17/2025 by Michael Gray The wind is tossing the tree branches outside my window. I don’t have to stir from my couch to welcome them into my world–as...
Before He Knows it Posted on 03/19/2023 by Michael Gray 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...
Bigger than a Blue Whale Posted on 03/07/2017 by Michael Gray Setting Sail While rain is manna for a tree And blossoms church bells for a bee We wander in a land of doubt And...
Where am I? When am I? Posted on 11/10/2015 by Michael Gray Asking ourselves “who am I?” rarely moves us beyond the perspective of the familiar, for the simple reason that we see ourselves through the...
Pretending to Know the Soul of a Tree –by M in the Trees Posted on 10/04/2014 by Michael Gray The Elm, her trunk rammed by a tractor leveling roadside weeds leans close to Earth, and now, in beginning Spring, is fuller green than...