Listening to the River
I like river images as a way to invoke the flowing connection between seemingly separate things in life. I grew up beside the Saint...
Tag: life
Dancing with the World
“Without rhythms, there would be no experience, but rhythms do not have to do with experience unfolding in time. The movement goes deeper. It’s...
How Can I Prepare?
It occurs to me that there are at least two ways I could be unprepared for my own death; and perhaps I should try...
Into the Light
The question on everyone’s lips is: “Did I run into the light or did the light run into me?” This question takes different forms...
Conversations with Men who Don’t Die
Dwttiz would be called an anthropologist on Earth and belongs to the same long-lived species as Ahat, who has been the resident Adjudicator on...
A Trip along Memory Lane
What a pleasure it is to be interviewed by someone (Bruce Alderman in this case) who through their interest and skilled inquiry is able...
Waiting by the Wayside
In my dream I’m waiting by the side of the road: I’m a half-eaten hotdog, flung out the window of a speeding car, lying...
Another Duck in the Rain
A friend of mine told me the other day that he avoids saying he has Parkinson’s; and he is certain that his refusal to...
Singing to the Choir
I had an experience this weekend, which I suspect that I inflict on others all the time: treating my personal perspectives as if they...
Here, Above and Below
It seems that at every level—both seen and unseen—a few shapes and patterns are repeated. That could be due to (especially in regard to...