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May 2021

May 17, 2021
The deep irony of my life as a teacher is that I travel all over...
May 10, 2021
  When not doing well, when full of doubt or pain or worry, when unable...
May 03, 2021
  I know you can only see red right now through the cut in your...

April 2021

April 26, 2021
No matter how many conversations I start, they all end with me kneeling at the...
April 19, 2021
In the way that erosion makes every face in nature more elemental, everything we go...
April 12, 2021
Now that we can’t touch, I am awash with all the ways that touch sustains...
April 05, 2021
Like everyone, I was taught that justice is blind, then given a scale to weigh...

March 2021

March 29, 2021
Sometimes, after she falls and before she gets up, she takes a deep breath. And...
March 22, 2021
Somehow, when I face what is mine to face and empty myself of all that...
March 15, 2021
In a moment of exhaustion, my mind was too tired to keep weaving its web...
March 08, 2021
She was standing in the aisle as the train bumped along the Hudson. She was...
March 01, 2021
Confidence is not the swagger or certainty with which we convey what we know. It...

February 2021

February 22, 2021
I doze in the hammock, and this book of voices from long ago falls from...
February 15, 2021
If you don’t know, then ask the moon in the sky. —Yuanwu   Trying to...
February 08, 2021
What is compassion but drifting in the immensity of life with an open heart? We...
February 01, 2021
Our job while here is threefold. First, like a mountain that is steadfast in meeting...

January 2021

January 25, 2021
As the unseen wind moves from the azalea to the young willow, the unseen force...
January 18, 2021
How can I be a bridge to help you cross what you need to cross?...
January 11, 2021
We live between the edge we look out from and the edge beyond which we...
January 04, 2021
I happened into the cathedral downtown and heard serious, ancient song in Latin or Greek....

December 2020

December 28, 2020
How will you ever find peace unless you yield to love? —Rabia   If you...
December 21, 2020
What you have to attempt [is] to be yourself. What you have to pray for...
December 14, 2020
The notion of “our better angels” was offered by Abraham Lincoln in 1861 in his...
December 07, 2020
Like someone who falls from a height into the water, I’m past the fall and...

November 2020

November 30, 2020
from Notes from the Pandemic  The apple blossoms behind Susan’s studio are opening and the...
November 23, 2020
The slightest nudge in the fabric of existence alters everything. The shift of an atom...
November 16, 2020
I began as all young artists do—working toward some imagined greatness that might reveal itself...
November 09, 2020
Every day, we are challenged to love what we’re given as much as what we...
November 02, 2020
When finding my way as a young man, I came home from college to have...

October 2020

October 26, 2020
Germs are microscopic cells that breakdown the structure of the life they enter. In the...
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