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October 2020

October 19, 2020
Community is like a large mosaic… a fellowship of… people who together make God visible...
October 12, 2020
The most unusual thing happened while walking Zuzu today. There was a thick shelf of...
October 05, 2020
Sometimes, the life-giving downpour will snap a limb on its way to releasing spring. And...

September 2020

September 28, 2020
Often the instruments of change are not kind or just and the hardest openness of...
September 21, 2020
After almost seventy years, I confess that though I have struggled I have never been...
September 14, 2020
I was in a circle of those who climbed from the sea of trouble onto...
September 07, 2020
As a fire needs wood, the soul needs care to burn strong and bright. And...

August 2020

August 31, 2020
I was bearing up under a weight I could no longer see, when the exhalation...
August 24, 2020
When you can admit how heavy you are with sadness, then we can talk. Right now,...
August 17, 2020
I’ve sat in hundreds of cafés, watching lives pass by, each eager to meet someone,...
August 10, 2020
The wind, skirting the dock, lifts a veil and I feel a sudden relief. I...
August 03, 2020
— dhikr in Islam, japam in Sanskrit, witness in English: the repetition of a name...

July 2020

July 27, 2020
In my sixty-eighth year, I saw a dancer, middle-aged, outside a café. I was at...
July 20, 2020
Every life is a miracle and a tragedy, and these undeniable forces will, at times,...
July 13, 2020
I was drowning in a dream when the storm cleared and I was lifted to...
July 06, 2020
I thought after death had its way with us, you would have stopped trying to...

June 2020

June 29, 2020
Everyone who lives is called to be in conversation with Life and Death. Our conversation...
June 22, 2020
The mountain becomes unbreakable by giving up everything in the storm. All that is unnecessary...
June 15, 2020
Come sit with me. I know you’re busy. I was busy too. Come. This won’t...
June 08, 2020
In an attempt to speed up the birth of chicks for marketing, shells were made...
June 01, 2020
It is impossible to know why some of us are broken open while some of...

May 2020

May 25, 2020
Beneath the cloud, everything is grey. Above the cloud, everything is light. Calling the cloud...
May 18, 2020
The garden grew this way and that as a circle of flowers gathered to discuss...
May 11, 2020
We each discover the Timeless Center through love and suffering. And just seeing the Center...
May 05, 2020
With each passing year, the climb turns into a drift: turn of phrase, turn of...

April 2020

April 27, 2020
After being born physically, we unfold within a second womb, meant to incubate our better...
April 20, 2020
Language is no more than the impressions left by birds nesting in snow.    Prayer...
April 13, 2020
The thread on the border of the fabric painting of Mount Fuji—stitched so many years...
April 06, 2020
We spend so much time anticipating what will happen next that we miss the whisper...

March 2020

March 30, 2020
Later, we’ll see Kenzie dance at NYU. She is sixteen and close to her source....
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