I ran into a friend yesterday. He told me, “I’m on my way to buy your book.” I wanted to hug him. Or at least buy him a beer. Then he told me about the circumstances in his life. And the end of a long relationship and the disorientation that goes with murky transitions. (And [...]
> On my garden path, February 2010 This Life Perhaps it will be on your walk to the mail box on a grey morning when the sky is a tarp, synched down at the corners. Or perhaps savoring your first sip of coffee as you look out into the forest at the weeping boughs of [...]
> We say or write what we think we mean. But Freudian slips are, well, a lot more entertaining. And perhaps, more accurate. To the point. In my Sabbath Moment, Endurance, I wrote: “Endurance is hardly an inspiring word. (It brings to mind the moral fiber necessary for two root canals in Guatemala.) When I [...]
> In January, I wrote a Sabbath Moment about Medicine Pouches. Here is an excerpt: When the Shawnee and Chippewa (and other early people) went on hunts or vision quests or long journeys, each traveler would carry in a small rawhide pouch various tokens of spiritual power–perhaps a feather, a bit of fur, a claw, [...]
> It’s here! You know, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Who, I wonder, first uttered that delightful phrase? I do know that most of the time, we are hoping for a moment (other than the one we are in right now) to rescue us or bail us out or cheer us up or [...]
> Record snowfall hits Dallas area!! That’s what the paper says this morning. That is where I am today. The Dallas area. Actually I am in Glen Rose, south of Fort Worth, at the Glen Lake Retreat Center, where last night’s lecture was cancelled, because the weather told people, “Stay off the roads. Stay in [...]
> Suchin Rai –SuchinRai.zenfolio / ShuchinRaipaintings Surrender There is a moment when you know that life will never be the same rearranged, somehow. And you do not know why or how only that you choose to surrender your mental list with its expectations as if it is some kind of indenture with fate or God. [...]
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