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March 20, 2017
The Secret is Burning
but I can’t tell if it’s using us up or lighting the way. Back from...
March 13, 2017
She’s Been Gone a Month
I’m teaching in Santa Barbara. The sun is setting. The group is having dinner. Someone...
March 08, 2017
At the Window
I was at the window when a fly near the latch was on its back...
February 2017
February 27, 2017
Things No One Asks About
I have been called heroic for merely surviving, which is like championing an eagle for...
February 20, 2017
Our Spirit Path
After four months of aggressive chemo, I had to have a test known as First...
February 13, 2017
Issues of Control
Chapter 24 of the Tao te Ching by the legendary Lao Tzu offers helpful direction...
February 06, 2017
Earth Prayer
O Endless Creator, Force of Life, Seat of the Unconscious, Dharma, Atman, Ra, Qalb, Dear...
January 2017
January 30, 2017
God’s Wounds
Beyond all that pain has taught me, the soft well at the base of time...
January 23, 2017
Burning the Map
Expectation is premeditated disappointment. —Sogyal Rinpoche Everyone’s life journey eventually arrives at a precipice or...
January 16, 2017
The Two Tribes
As we approach Inauguration day, I want to offer a deeper, broader context for the...
January 09, 2017
On the Way to Coney Island
I was eight or nine, rummaging through her basement, through my dead grandfather’s books, when...
January 02, 2017
Finding Solid Ground
John’s father had built their home when John was a boy. It was perched on...
December 2016
December 29, 2016
Look Around
If you try to comprehend air before breathing it, you will die. If you...
December 19, 2016
The Great Wave
Sometimes we seek refuge from our pain in the habits of life, as if sheer...
December 12, 2016
Walking North
No matter how I turn the magnificent light follows. Background to my sadness. No...
December 05, 2016
At Stadium and Drake
I was waiting to make a left, to get out of traffic. She was across...
November 2016
November 28, 2016
Accepting This
Yes, it is true. I confess, I have thought great thoughts, and sung great songs—all...
November 21, 2016
If You Want a True Friend
Just open your hands and say, “I don’t know.” Say it softly and wait, so...
November 12, 2016
Post-Election Thoughts
I was recently in New York City giving a reading at the New York Open...
November 07, 2016
Breaking Surface
Let no one keep you from your journey, no rabbi or priest, no mother who...
October 2016
October 31, 2016
Fighting the Instrument
Often the instruments of change are not kind or just and the hardest openness of...
October 24, 2016
In Muir Woods
Masters of stillness, masters of light, who, when cut by something falling, go nowhere...
October 18, 2016
The Lesson
When young, it was the first fall from love. It broke me open the way...
October 10, 2016
Where No One Stays a Statue
It was a sunny day and I went to the park and sat on a...
October 03, 2016
Initiating the Gift
I often experience the days like someone rowing, and each time I slip an oar...
September 2016
September 26, 2016
The Covenant of Love
In the West, we’re eager, even anxious, to choose names for babies before they’re born....
September 19, 2016
Our Authority of Being
Alex is a trial attorney who knows how to be assertive and use the authority...
September 12, 2016
The Effort to Learn
I confess and celebrate that the only thing I’ve done longer than teach is to...
September 06, 2016
Going Off the Deep End
When our beloved dog Mira died, there were those who walked with us, honoring the...
September 02, 2016
Did You Miss the Live Stream with Mark Nepo on “The One Life We’re Given?” Here’s the Video!
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