While there is still time

"As she got older, she was discovering the strange commerce of love: Whatever she gave to others (affection, understanding, kindness) ...

"At the end of a day, I tend to ask myself, did you contribute something beautiful to the world? Just a little be...

On the Winter Solstice ...On this longest night, it’s so clear— the truest reason to write at all is to fall ...

Indeed. "Though much is taken, much abides."  And there's more to admire in men than to despise . My fa...

The Virtue of Discomfort In the beginning of a relationship, she said, both people were happy to be a little uncomfortable. It was a volu...

I used to write down interesting things I read, in notebooks, pre-internet days. I have 5 of them, I think I started in ...

“In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree.”  W. S Merwi...

This gave me goose pimples. How Did Hokusai Create The Great Wave?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEubj3c2How I ...

"The great Katsushika Hokusai was an artist, a Japanese one but ironically least like a typical Japanese artist. ...

For some strange reason, this felt like a  chant, a litany. I read it many times. The smell and feel of all those earthy things, and the lo...

The Second Sermon on the Warpland For Walter Bradford 1. This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind....

Walking Through the Prehistoric Journey Exhibit And again I recall how small we are, how ninety nine percent of all species that have e...

The Thing Is after Ellen Bass To trust life, that is the thing. To trust it even when there are gaping holes in the walls of your cert...

"I'm making a list of things I'm not allowed to say: That I'm lonely. And that I fear this lo...

"I wear sadness differently now than I did at eighteen or 25 or any of the years in between. I'm more comfortable with my own br...