Hemlock
Sitting. Staring at blankness, hearing the fan knock woodenly as it’s rotation reaches an end point. There is a ballpoint pen in …
Tag Archives: Life
Three $1 bills
After a month of cold and flu and coal smoke and pre-schoolers, a friend and I finally managed to meet …
True Nature Cries Ouch!
When I returned home from a brief and brisk afternoon walk with the dog my partner asked as she usually …
Watchers at the Window
The wind is howling as a cold front moves in taking our unseasonable balmy weather with it for a few …
These old shoes
In “Aging to Sage-ing,”Rabbi Zalmon Schachter-Shalomi, explores the question of our true nature first, by eloquently re-imagining Freud’s basic premise …
Bounce
Loving what you photograph in the sense espoused by Buber won’t make you a better photographer or give you better …
Kado: A Zen Art
One of my stories is that life is short and I grow old. The pressure to share, to contribute, to …
Who are we without our Stories?
It’s been over a month now since I made the trip back to Missouri to see my mother. It was …
Old Territories and New Maps
The ripples of Metta which had arrived via my iPhone straight from Katherine’s heart gave me sweet dreams and I …
The Undefended Heart
An undefended heart. We all have one. A place or a space we experience as being inside – that holds …
The Way of the Flower 