Life Imitating Art
Last week, I wrote a piece about a cuckoo bird who transcended his predetermined role in life to save his nest mates. I chose...
Tag: compassion
A Bird on the Wing
I always took Kafka’s phrase, “A bird went in search of a cage,” as referring to the human tendency to feel anxious with too...
Tackling the Hardest Task First
I’ve been reading a book, titled “Caring”, in the past few months. And as might be expected it has a lot to say about...
Backing into Compassion
At a recent support group for bereaved parents, the facilitator, whose son died at least five years ago, said that in her experience the...
Why a Bird has two Wings
The phrase (“Wisdom and Compassion are like the two wings of a bird”) expresses an important message for our fragmented times. This Buddhist saying...
Bridges Made of Dream
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...
Being in the Dark
“Deprived of full access to this living quality of being, the senses coarsen and the human spirit shrivels. Seeing only through the filters of...
Home Coming
For whomever may be experiencing anxiety, illness, or uncertainty about what is heading our way, may Ken’s poem celebrate a home coming to the...
Balance is a Movement in Space and Time
Discovering a healthy balance in how we feel and act seems to be an on-going challenge. As soon as we think we have found...