memory Archives - MICHAEL GRAY

Working—Inside and Outside

In the early years of my working life, the main context in which I felt engaged and fulfilled was when I was learning a...

I don’t know how much it’s a sign of the connections I have made in life and how much a symptom of the times...

I just finished reading a book by Sue Monk Kidd: “The Book of Longings: A Novel”. It tells the story of Jesus in a...

Whether we actually practice being at the center of our experience, or simply try to pay attention to our feelings and thoughts as they...

Waves are lapping against the gunnels of a rowboat that isn’t familiar to me. I see that I’m a good mile out from the...

I felt the vibration of the ship’s engines through the deckchair arms and through the railing against which I was leaning. Without taking my...

For the past several centuries, I have become lackadaisical about maintaining my cover. Once it became clear that I had to move to a...

At this hour on a Sunday evening, I would ordinarily have finished the dishes, locked the front door and settled in with a book...

Writing a memoir can be as simple as taking a stroll through the neighborhood, and is often undertaken for similar reasons: we’re looking for...

“By learning to contact the essence of our being, we can discover an unbounded freedom, which is not only a freedom from some external...