Today I went for a run in the middle of the day and only passed a single car. I ran down the very center of the highway like I was the star actress in an Apocalypse movie. It was thrilling and it was terrifying. I wonder if that car was going to the hospital, […]
best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light– good morning, good morning, good morning. ~Mary Oliver, Why I Wake Early One thing about me, […]
If there is a consistent theme running through my writing, it’s the call to pay heed to the passing moments, to pay attention when the holy arises. The sacred is all around us and we each get to decide what’s meaningful. One thing about organized religion that never resonated with me was the idea that […]
We have no female equivalent to the term renaissance man because a woman who excels at many talents, in many areas, is so typical we simply call her a woman. ~David Gate, Renaissance Wow. My article on “wintering” (published January 22, 2024) really hit a collective nerve. I wrote that I am feeling tired […]
It was inevitable. After lugging my father’s hand-me-down Yamaha around for over a decade, the clasps on my beleaguered guitar case snapped and I had to buy a new one. This case carried my instrument to my very first practice eleven years ago. It was there for my first chord (A), my first Beatles song […]
As I write this on January 10, we are a mere 20 days into the official season of wintering. Wintering is a fallow season in our lives, a time to reconnect with our inner nature and tap into our creative depths. A time to rest and restore. But our world beckons, loudly and insistently. Our […]
