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March 2020

March 23, 2020
I stop in the middle of our conversation on the street and feel those around...
March 15, 2020
In the ocean of history, things build and then are worn away to what is...
March 09, 2020
When I was ill, I walked the antiseptic corridors, holding God so tightly  I couldn’t...
March 02, 2020
After forty years, my oldest friend, Robert, took my hand and said, “I didn’t give...

February 2020

February 24, 2020
While every love we know is unique and has its own history, every chance to...
February 17, 2020
  As I travel to offer workshops and retreats, I enter a depth with willing...
February 10, 2020
The drop of ocean teaches us about integrity and faith because, no matter how churned...
February 03, 2020
When humbled, we finally stop fighting—  against life, against the tide of time, against the...

January 2020

January 27, 2020
The more a comet burns away, the brighter it gets.   As it enters the...
January 21, 2020
Death has been with me, getting my attention, saying nothing. So this morning, in a...
January 13, 2020
Living with an open heart, all is real. And we become briefly all that we...
January 07, 2020
You know someone loves you when they put the moon in your tea to calm...

December 2019

December 23, 2019
Each of us is called to listen our way into the underlying truth that connects...
December 16, 2019
In 1514, a young Michelangelo worked hard to sculpt his version of Christ the Redeemer....
December 09, 2019
I was stranded in Washington D.C. due to a storm in Chicago. It was sunny...
December 02, 2019
In our modern age, the noble art of reading has been truncated and compromised. Today,...

November 2019

November 25, 2019
I believe that teaching, reading, and writing all have to do with searching. Each involves...
November 18, 2019
To see takes time like to have a friend takes time. —Georgia O’Keeffe   I...
November 12, 2019
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise,...
November 04, 2019
I suddenly knew I was looking at it from the wrong angle and I gave...

October 2019

October 28, 2019
I started writing in high school after my first love dumped me. I was devastated....
October 22, 2019
Bearing witness is one of the primary ways that human beings hold each other up...
October 15, 2019
There are two beautiful notions that speak to our innate yearning to release and be...
October 07, 2019
Wherever I go, I’m blessed to climb with others into the interior we all share....

September 2019

September 30, 2019
Perhaps God is an infinite secret hiding in the open waiting for each of us...
September 23, 2019
The opposite of rational is not irrational but intuitive. And while the mind and heart...
September 16, 2019
We don’t create to achieve or make history, no matter how we’re schooled or what...
September 04, 2019
I’ve known this world in all its splendor and breakage for a lifetime. Or has...

August 2019

August 26, 2019
As the sun never stops shining no matter the weather, our heart is an inner...
August 19, 2019
When the question arises, “Why write? Why create?” I’m drawn to ask, “Why breathe? Why...
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