Someone I had never met before gave me a gift this week—noticing something with which I have long struggled, an expensive need for which all my efforts and funds have …
on what must be said of Salem, Mass.
I adore the people of Salem, Massachusetts. Flat out adore them. I have been coming to this town via library ships since 1995 and via plane or automobile since 2006—thanks …
on this morning
View Poston half a century and five years with less left to go
Somewhere in this wide weary world I have already passed this milestone, this pleasant middling moment of turning 55, but in the small town where I actually arrived on this …
on wellbeing and all beings
From where does one’s sense of connections to others arise? Might it be hardwired into us in some manner or place to which the conscious soul is denied access? From …
on life
How I love this thing we call life! E'en its slings and arrows, for they sharpen the sojourner's senses, do they not? Awaken the least of our cells and prod ...
on prayers we still send when words fail
Words fail as I hear from people on the ground in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea who are losing friends and neighbors to ebola now. So many are already stricken …
on vows and being alive
Having made a vow in August never again to stay up all night for teaching prep or work, I find myself now, once more of a winsome morn, having broken …
on autumn leaves
In the cooling days of autumn, rain-pocked and fallen leaves seem to mark the yearnings of all beings to live and then to leave. There is always something healing in …
on navigating New England
New England roads, bless their spice-pickin’, shoe-cobblin’, trade-wind keelin’ hearts, take a traveler straight down to the knees a few times before they let up and simply remap your brain …