The little wooden stool that my friend gave me about 25 years ago has played various roles in my home. It’s been a plant stand,

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror…

Early morning in that liminal space between sleep and waking. A light appears before me and inside of me, at my forehead. The light takes form and I see Tinkerbell from Peter Pan…

Too bad the word trump is so overused nowadays, because it’s a useful word. In the Tarot card system there are two levels, the minor arcana symbolizing the ins and outs of worldly concerns…

In the beginning human beings lived in a participation mystique with all of nature. About 6,000 years ago they left that garden within which there

​Dear Immune system, I’m sorry for the toxins in the air we breathe. I’m sorry for the genetically modified foods that I do everything in

“Nothing, absolutely nothing, can sterilize spiritual creativity so long as a man is—and realizes himself to be—free. Only the loss of freedom, or of the

I posted this on a different blog site December 8, 2013. I thought it was worth revisiting. I’ve noticed a curious thing since Nelson Mandela’s