Words Can Harm or Help
Don’t get me wrong. I love words. Sometimes words feel like the inhalations and exhalations that mark the flowing stream of life. The time...
Tag: fire
Fire and Water, June 24th.
As I prepared to flip my calendar from June 2020 to July, I saw that Wednesday, June 24, is still a holiday in Quebec,...
Clear Sailing
How easy it is to lose track of all the space that permeates every part of our embodiment and lies within every surface that...
The Weaver is Being Woven.
In my own life, I have experienced recurrent changes in how my eyes viewed my world: in 1968, after a fire expelled me from...
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...
Monster Mash–by Ken McKeon
(Ken’s poem could be about the search for scapegoats, so ubiquitous in today’s headlines) Frost famously asked Which does one prefer, Fire or ice,...
Water Walking on Water.
It’s raining in New Mexico. Perhaps if it keeps up for another two months, locals will start complaining, but for now we look at...
Original Thinking
We all know that polluting the land, the water, and the air—and treating fellow creatures as unfeeling resources to be exploited–is wrong and unsustainable....