It Takes a Train . . .
A sound somewhere in the neighborhood appeared before my awareness and I understood something illusive. I ordinarily hasten to fill in the gaps in...
Tag: past
Making Good Use of Time
There’s a saying that seems to be born out in experience: “If you want something done, give it to a busy person”. The reason...
What’s Next?
Light is showing up among the branches visible through my sunroom windows. Not enough to predict what kind of day it will be, but...
An Unanticipated Trip.
A man, who for several years hasn’t driven outside the radius that holds his grocery store and a few favorite restaurants, is planning a...
Fundamentally Supportive
“Past, present, and future interact in the undivided dynamic of a circle or a wheel, offering one another fundamental support” Tarthang Tulku, “Knowledge of...
The Day has Come
“The recognition of not-understanding is the opening to understanding.” Revelations of Mind, p219 It seems that we all search for a place in the...
Reunions, Nests, and Flight Paths
Now and then I receive invitations for school reunions, but I’ve never felt tempted to catch up with people whom I didn’t know all...
Evolution is a Relationship
Unlike the Republican uncle and Progressive son-in-law brandishing their forks–while pointing out to each outer the one true path–belief systems can, in quiet moments,...
Another Trip around the Sun (#2016)
(Excerpted from my memoir, “The Flying Caterpillar”, ABQ Press, 2013) As we get older and have more say in setting our own agendas, we...
The Past as Gateway
I’ve just returned from a five-day TSK retreat and this has reminded me of a half-year retreat more than 20 years ago which changed...