Paean to beauty

Not long ago, as I was touring the Etsy website (for those of you who aren’t handicraft aficionados, Etsy is … More

Migrant bird (the bargain)

I wrote this poem some twenty or so years ago when my daughter was a feisty young woman newly graduated … More

“They Called Him the Maniac” By Clarissa Pinkola Estés The old woman with Alzheimer’s is protected by her rowdy, bellowing … More

“Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful … More

Flesh of my flesh, woman grown; intimate stranger, inhabitant of a land foreign to me, and wild, you wrestle with … More

I’ve been following a blog called “Standing in an Open Field,” written by a Zen priest named Dominic. Today Sensei … More

This outlandish flow of words. This gushing stream. It serves no purpose in the tight, rational world of bonds and … More

Most of the time I’m a pretty organized person, so you might believe that I’m one of those far-sighted folks … More

[As I was doing some overdue housecleaning on my blog this morning, I came across this post that never got … More

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. [Meister Eckhart … More

what is this? so blatantly in my face yet unable to be seen? closer than my breath yet unable to … More

A simple enough statement….one that even has the ring of truth to it. I happen to believe it. But is … More

When you’ve a decision to make, fence-sitting is not the most pleasant of occupations. As you sit there on that … More

If you’re interested in learning more about being grateful, the wisdom of Brother Steindl-Rast can be found here and here. … More

An old man walking across the beach one morning in the pre-dawn light came across a young boy picking things … More

Remember the Five Gatekeepers of Speech (five conditions to be explored in relation to Right Speech) that I talked about … More

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us…. the madness on this planet is … More

For two months now, I’ve been sitting on a fence. It doesn’t look like a fence. In fact, what it … More

Raindrops, taken with a special digital camera just after a rain shower. [photographer unknown]

It’s hardly rocket science; so you’d think we homo sapiens sapiens would have managed by now to grasp the concept.

Spring peepers are to the amphibian world what robins are to the bird world. As their name implies, they begin … More

These days, in spite of the glorious and much-awaited sunshine, the welcoming spring weather, I’m struggling with my old bugbear, … More