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Another simple miracle
I did not plan for it to happen. I hadn’t even thought about it, ever. I was simply out for my morning prayer walk: “Good morning, Father Sun, thank you for another day of life. Good morning, Auntie Moon, thank you for another night of peace. Good morning, Mother Earth, thank you for your beauty […]
Worthy words
My reading this morning of an essay by Alan Trachtenberg about the poetry of Hart Crane unearthed these two lines that so wonderfully encompass in my view a worthy spiritual practice: “…not to escape time but to find timeless fulfillment in it.” and further “…a struggle to free the transcendent without losing the immediate world.”
Centering in a Time of Stress
I was asked recently to post here something I presented years ago to a group in San Diego, and I am happy to do so, at least an excerpt from it. It was a talk concerning “Centering in a Time of Stress.” In that presentation, I first briefly discussed the level of stress my family […]
Here we go!
Here we go! The morning has arrived when I cannot walk in the meadow without stepping on tiny purples and whites and violets, when I can stand still and watch, literally watch, the greening happening and the blooming emerging, right before my eyes. An hour ago there were no pear blossoms, now here they are! […]
A Provocative Look at Thanksgiving
T E A C H I N G A B O U T T H A N K S G I V I N G Dr. Frank B. Brouillet Superintendent of Public Instruction State of Washington Cheryl Chow Assistant Superintendent Division of Instructional Programs and Services Warren H. Burton Director Office for Multicultural and Equity […]
That Intersecting Space
This is only one slant, one among many possible. Not to be read as any kind of absolute. Just a meditation on a moment in time, a psyche in flux. Tomorrow, some other voice will speak. But for now… A conundrum, a paradox… a way through? Here’s how it goes. Taught the dangers of pride, […]
Amid the Violence
In this turbulent time in our world, as even the trained “care-givers” are pushed by events and emotions over the edge to do unbelievable violence, I realize that all of us are victims… we are victims of a time of such fierce division, hatred, anxiety, and we are bombarded by what is so often hateful […]
Herodotus on Deity
Herodotus is often called the “father of history.” Born in about 485 BC in Halicarnassus , he wrote a bardic history of the Persian Wars, describing how a coalition of Greek city-states defeated invasion by the great Persian Empire. Widely traveled and observant, Herodotus recounts many details about the religions of various peoples of the […]
So I Hear
Held together by a shoestring. Mama’s expression. String’s frayed. Or duck tape. Coming unglued. Hanging by a thread. Unraveling. Over an abyss. Don’t look now. It’s a war zone. All too much. Everybody, it seems, is having themselves a nervous breakdown. A collective short circuit’s going on. Sparks flying. Metaphysical explanations everywhere you turn, but […]
Carriers of Water in the Desert
A quote from Gerald Hausman: “Recently a Native American friend said, ‘We are all carriers of water now. Carriers in the desert. We cannot drop even a drop. We must share what we have with everyone. This is the challenge beyond measure.’ In reaching out through the universality of myth, we should hope to turn […]
