The smile is never far from her lips, the twinkle is always alive in her eyes. She dances through life, plucky, resilient, wise, playful. She taught me how to find my soul. She is my muse and my mate. She never flinches. She never wavers. She takes your breath away. Happy Birthday, T. I love you.
In a Dark Time In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood– A lord of nature weeping to a tree, I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den. What’s madness but […]
Each place you go, don’t look for the thing that is different. Look for the thing that is the same. That is your starting point, the anchor. I can share the experience. We aren’t alone. But we can’t find each other inside all the noise. We have to look out into the quiet, strip the […]
A human being is part of a whole…[but] he experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest…This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison […]
During my lifetime the population of the world has doubled, a phenomenon that captivates me with its myriad implications. Mix in the lengthening of lifespans and we are faced with an entirely new proposition on how to live a life. Do the traditions, habits and cultural mores that have been handed down over generations have relevance […]