“I can’t help but believe that I was sent here this morning to meet you,” she said, this woman a few years younger than me, walking an elegant dog half …
on standing with peace in a loss
I am struck today by this: When we stand grieving the loss of someone or some thing we have loved or held dear, it serves us in many ways. If …
on belonging to the earth and beyond
“In the village, life is directly inspired by the earth, by the trees, by the hills and rivers. We live at the threshold between the ancestor world—the world of spirit—and …
on what we agree to becoming our fate
On waking from a dream of social destruction and primal violence last night, still held in that world’s thrall and unable to shake the sense that these portents and doom …
on longing
Any longing unmet, unacknowledged, unwelcomed splits the soul in two again and again, until it no longer knows itself at all. Is it not an irony, then, that our longings hold …
on this moment
This moment. This exact one. No other. No yesterday, tomorrow, mañana, or anon. This moment. All that ever is or was, could’ve or might’ve or even should’ve been, all that …
on taking a rock star for a walk on a leash
Some creatures show up here with outsized charisma, and this going-on-eight-now pup is one of them. Every day reaffirms the point: going for a walk with Sexy Louis is like …
on helping and being helped between desert and sea
A few days ago, still on my way from the desert to the sea, I was rolling along in a pack of vehicles feeling hot and tired and ready for …
on the sharings of that against which we rail
I hate some of the things that I know. Just hate them. There’s no zen in such a matter, no course in miracles’ing along, just a bleak bearing witness to …
on easing into fall
And now we come to my very favorite season of all in the northern hemisphere. Fall, when everything about is either dying or preparing to hole up for the winter …