RSS FEEDPerception 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 […]
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 […]
Mothering
For this special occasion, Mothering Day, I have created a video which I hope you will watch. The music pauses midstream, on purpose, I guess, but keep watching till the end. The message is important. My best to all of you who mother the world!
Theology and A Way of Life
Amazing. I heard those same words many years ago, although in another context, to be sure. The same words. Though used differently. Back then, it was a Native American elder speaking in a gentle and compassionate way to a group of interested non-natives. “Ours is not a theology,” he said, “it is a way of […]
Wintering, the Wellspring
I know you called and said you were waiting for me to post something personal, not just someone else’s quotation, but something I’m thinking about, because it’s important to share… I want to. Every day I think about it. I’m here waiting for it to shape itself into words. Waiting for inspiration, for revelation, for […]
Wholeness and Courage
A quote from Marsha Sinetar: “…Wholeness exists to the extent an individual is conscious of and receptive to his innermost self…When we think about our own growth we probably think simultaneously of two co-existing and equally necessary elements: self-knowledge (i.e. knowing who the self within us really is and awakening to the values, needs and […]
The season to be…
In all my years, I’ve never seen anything like it. I guess that after so many trees died or almost died in last summer’s hot drought or in the raging summer fires, those trees still here are now greatly rejoicing at actually being alive. Or perhaps they fear that this is their last hurrah. Either […]
