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Beautiful Explanation of Sikh Service
Dawn brought to my attention this beautiful music and this most insightful video. May it help us all to increase our breadth of understanding and to share in all blessings together.
After Newtown
The shortest verse in the Christian Bible is “Jesus wept.” He wept when his friend died, just as all of us, even our president, in the past few days have wept for the loss of life in Newtown, Connecticut. After Jesus wept, though, the Bible tells us, he acted to change the circumstances concerning his […]
Each and All
The coldest night of the year. Awakened in the early morning by a red cardinal pecking on the window, I stir finally out of the warm nest of my bedcovers. When I look out the window, a glittering clear frost covers everything. Wrapped in a thick red robe (that new fabric that is so deliciously […]
Make this world a better place
“Playing For Change” is indeed making this world a better place…Enjoy this new offering and support the message!
Giving Thanks
On this day, as on all days, I give thanks especially for you, each and all of you, whose lives, love, and good works mean so much in this needy world. This Thanksgiving I am reminded, yet again, of how important it is to pause to give thanks. That pause in the hurley burley of […]
Perception of Self, the One and the Many
“…It is common for humans to conceive of the world as a sum of complementary pairs, such as good and evil, light and dark, male and female, body and soul. The most fundamental of these oppositions is that between subject and object—the knower and the known. Most people perceive themselves as discrete, bounded entities, able […]
To the Contemporary Bunkshooters
Excerpts from a poem by Carl Sandburg “You come along…tearing your shirt…yelling about Jesus. Where do you get that stuff? What do you know about Jesus? Jesus had a way of talking soft and outside of a few bankers and higher ups among the con men of Jeru- salem everybody liked to have this Jesus […]
Open to the Infinite
This morning I read a poem by Kenneth Rexroth that echoed something I know. The poem is The Heart of Herakles.” Here is an excerpt: Lying under the stars, In the summer night… …The stars stand around me Like gold eyes. I can no longer Tell where I begin and leave off. The faint breeze […]
Sometimes Mother Nature…
Something I experienced and wrote about this summer. Glenda Taylor “Sometimes Mother Nature is a bitch,” she said. She was replying to our text message telling her that the mountain wilderness, once so loved—once dense with stately spruce, shimmering aspen, dark fir, pitch pine, and mystery, that same mountain wilderness where a bear once walked […]
