Yesterday, on the 20th anniversary of 9-11, the images seared into our memories are recharged. Front and center.“There is a sacredness in tears,” Washington Irving wrote. “They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently…
Tuesday -- This week we’re talking about life’s turvyness.More specifically, about a paradigm change. Life has “storms” of many kinds. So. How do we choose to see?How do we choose to navigate?How do we choose to engage? "When I get…
The geese are on a brief holiday, trying out other lakes and campgrounds in our neck of the woods, so this morning my audience a cluster of ducks. I had no shortage of topics as our world’s turvyness seizes both…
Tuesday -- Here’s the deal: all the while we are looking for the revelation, we miss the flower.What does the flower represent? Well, that's just it. I don't know.Perhaps it's the heart. Or being present. Or awareness. Or openness. Or…
Buddha's teaching method was counter intuitive, to say the very least. More often than not, he didn't even talk. He just sat there.There is a well-known story about The Buddha sitting in a place with hundreds of people gathered around…
Tuesday -- This week, we’re talking about the Pause Button; slowing down to create and honor space for healing, replenishment, and spiritual hydration. Etty Hillesum’s reminder that, “Ultimately, we have just one moral duty. To reclaim large areas of peace…
On my walk this morning, a light rain and cool gray skies. It’s a little early for November weather, but it feels good to put on my Seahawks rain jacket.So. I stand with the geese for a wee bit, and…
Tuesday -- This week we’re talking about bridges. Finding (and naming ways) to connect in a world susceptible to disconnect and fracture. And fortress building.Sometimes bridges are built where there were none before. Sometimes they are built (rebuilt) where damage…
Two brothers, living on adjoining farms, fell into conflict. In forty years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, providing mutual support and assistance whenever needed, it is their first rift. But it doesn't take much, does it? A conflict…
Tuesday -- This week we’re talking about Mohini, a regal white tiger who spent her final days pacing a twelve-by-twelve foot square, when she had a new and expansive environment.So where to begin? Maybe, all it takes is one step…
