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January 2019

January 07, 2019
I have longed for people I thought I would die without. And wanted books and...

December 2018

December 17, 2018
Over the years, I talked so much that, like a car speeding down a dirt...
December 10, 2018
In late November, I had an odd sensation in the night of not being able...
December 03, 2018
I’ve lived long enough to know that every sigh opens a story, the way a...

November 2018

November 26, 2018
I was raised like our backyard, only tended with a sigh when I began to...
November 19, 2018
The old Asian man is playing one string so completely that the hymns of the...
November 12, 2018
I wonder where you are tonight. Each of you. You who I lived with for...
November 05, 2018
Often, the delicate grows within the harsh, the way the milky sweetness grows inside a...

October 2018

October 28, 2018
When on the go, there are more places to go. When stopped, I’m surprised that...
October 22, 2018
All the meditative traditions encourage us to be still and to drop our thoughts and...
October 15, 2018
As a broken door lets in the light, a broken heart lets in the world....
October 08, 2018
He was thirteen before he knew what a hand drill was. His father saved and...
October 01, 2018
Maybe all my sufferings have been carving me into a statue of Ganesh that someone...

September 2018

September 24, 2018
The first big storm of winter cancelled all the flights. Like refugees, we lined up...
September 17, 2018
Everywhere I go, I meet people who’ve traveled on. Like the young man who grew...
September 10, 2018
The old painter tells me that he loves to drive through small towns, so he...
September 03, 2018
In many ways, writing is listening and simply taking notes. One of the reasons I...

August 2018

August 27, 2018
Access to knowledge is a major step in deepening community, because it welcomes individuals into...
August 20, 2018
When overwhelmed by the suffering, bring water to the first you find. When you can’t...
August 15, 2018
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices....

July 2018

July 23, 2018
The humane sense of community envisioned by Confucius beholds society as a structure of human...
July 16, 2018
Despite all our differences, the unity of [hu]mankind will assert itself irresistibly. —Carl Jung  ...
July 09, 2018
As pollen gathers and disperses, as inlets form and wash away, instances of meaningful community...
July 03, 2018
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads,...

June 2018

June 25, 2018
An old friend drove me into the Santa Fe National Forest so we could walk...
June 22, 2018
I was in Vancouver at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia...
June 11, 2018
My neighbor and I wave to each other through the trees, though we don’t even...
June 04, 2018
In the Hindu Upanishads, there’s a passage that speaks to how those who become wise...

May 2018

May 29, 2018
I’m drifting today between the delicate and the harsh, between all that has passed and...
May 21, 2018
how little time there is, I’m falling in love with everything: the stranger whose name...
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