I Wasn’t Jesus Today
I wasn’t Jesus today, but I may have put a couple stitches into the hem of the sleeve of St. Francis. When I was a little child I had a vision. My family had returned to the States from Israel where I’d been born. We were seemingly a regular Jewish American family. Yet that afternoon, […]
Voting “Rites” Act
I remember when voting, even in a Primary Election, was treated as a sacred rite. Sample ballots were sent to each registered voter several weeks before the election and families would sit down together and discuss the candidates and issues. The sample ballot was filled out and prepared for voting day to make sure one […]
Beggar Messenger
“You don’t have $5 to loan me.” He said this more like a statement than a question. He was dragging his legs toward me and looked as beaten a human being as I had been feeling. I heard a funny squeak before his words came out as if he’d been priming the pump to use […]
Hollyhocks Insistence
Nature is helpful and friendly. We know all about the other side of that story, the survival of the fittest—everything killing and eating everything else, the indifference of nature. But I’ve had so many experiences of nature being exceedingly personal and caring also—for instance the hollyhock that has taken over my front porch. For the […]
Trash Walk
I read an article by Anthony Doerr in Orion Magazine about walking. It reminded of what I realized this morning before Yoga: I haven’t been out walking for almost a week. Warm today, I headed out to walk across my road onto the mesa. But four steps onto the dirt, I realized the ground was […]
Greatness in Humility
“Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great” Golda MeirOne thing that fascinates me about Downton Abbey, in addition to the gorgeous gowns and the starched perfection of human behavior, is the way we as an audience are subtly shown the breaking down of that structure of certainty; that pivotal point in history where aristocratic […]
Sesshin* (Touching the Heart-Mind)
Yesterday, O Joy Whose body is here sitting? What matter that pain?Today, Why are we doing this anyway?Tomorrow. No idea can foretell * A period of intensive Zen meditation (zazen)
We’re All Going To Die
I ran into a meditation friend at the market today. We talked briefly about our last group meditation and then she said she had to get through her shopping and get home, because her boyfriend, a rancher in Colorado, was arriving soon with two seven day old piglets. They planned to keep them in the […]
“Spiritual Experiences”
My friend invited me to the Unitarian Church service in which she was leading the discussion—“spiritual experiences.” During the decade 1990’s I experienced many “spiritual experiences.” I was in the midst of a Hermetic initiation carried through by means of Gnostic sacraments and rituals. At that time I was pulled into a mythopoeic world that […]
Raven Medicine Epiphany
A wild rabbit has been nibbling at the weeds at my front porch. Soon, I thought, the meager winter fare will be gone, most of it buried under a few inches of snow. So I bought some Sweet Grass Timothy Hay for her and put it out in clumps. A friend sent me a quote […]
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