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August 2016

August 31, 2016
If you enjoyed Mark Nepo's #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening,...
August 29, 2016
Read Mark Nepo's timely Op-Ed. Like everyone, I am deeply disturbed by the epidemic of...
August 23, 2016
Mark Nepo shares an excerpt from his new book Inside the Miracle, welcomes us into...
August 22, 2016
On a sunny day on a visit to Seattle, I woke heavy-hearted, as the clouds...
August 15, 2016
Saul of Tarsus was an intransigent Roman citizen, zealous in his persecution of early Christians...
August 08, 2016
My wife, Susan, is a potter. When she was first learning to center clay on...
August 01, 2016
Karen’s father never listened to her. When her college friend, Iris, came home for Thanksgiving...

July 2016

July 25, 2016
I'm excited to share my new book, The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom...
July 18, 2016
I'm excited to share my new book, The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom...
July 11, 2016
I'm excited to share my new book, The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom...
July 05, 2016
My father has been with me since his death, speaking to me through the things...

June 2016

June 27, 2016
When we can still ourselves, our heart will sink —of its own weight—below the noise...
June 20, 2016
A rheumatologist at a workshop at the Cleveland Clinic spoke of a twenty-one-year-old woman she...
June 16, 2016
The tragic murder of all these young, beautiful beings in Orlando makes all the talk...
June 13, 2016
Each person is born with a gift. Our call is to find it and care...
June 06, 2016
My dear father, Morris Nepo, died three years ago at the age of ninety-three. He...

May 2016

May 31, 2016
THE SWAY OF IT ALL   And so I lift my face from the mud,...
May 23, 2016
Twenty-six years ago today, the tumor growing in my skull vanished and I was thrown...
May 18, 2016
CRADLESONG (for Jessica)   How do I explain chemotherapy to a six-year-old up in my...
May 02, 2016
IT   First It was a woman with auburn hair whose head would moan when...

April 2016

April 25, 2016
LETTING GO   After feeling driven my whole life something very near the center has...
April 21, 2016
IN THE SEA OF OTHERS   It’s next to impossible to do this alone. We...
April 11, 2016
EVENTUALLY   We stop trying to carry all that we know as if it will...
April 04, 2016
ADRIFT   Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart...

March 2016

March 28, 2016
OCEAN OF SKY   The cloud shelf drifts toward what still seems possible and the...
March 21, 2016
MIDWAY IN OUR JOURNEY   Just when we’re softened by the years, when we have...
March 14, 2016
WHAT CAN I DO?   I was surprised when John, who helped save my life, came...
March 07, 2016
KNOWING GOD   Oh lone crazed bird singing in the night—   you sing with...

February 2016

February 29, 2016
SITTING NEAR A SMOKE BUSH It was feathery and in bloom. Bees were circling. Children...
February 22, 2016
On Saturday night, February 20, there was a mass shooting here in Kalamazoo. Now the...
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