Cosmogenesis in the Garden

Hello, friends. This beautiful weather reminds us that Spring is a season of ever-renewing change. Even as the world still suffers from many ills and the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, our glance at the garden and the abundance of warm sunshine…

Mutual healing

Hi friends, Love of animals is a later life gift for me. It's amazing how we can be compassionate healers for one another. Last week I saw a pic in the NY Times of an American woman's "trophy kill" of a beautiful giraffe. She leaned proudly…

Hail to Heroes

This day of remembrance to the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. is equally a day of service. In America as elsewhere, the striving for a just and fair world is a task of on-going service, and the task is always to achieve a "yes, but…

Review of Interbeing by Robert Ambrose Jr.

Hello friends, Athens poet and my good friend Robert Ambrose Jr. has written a wonderful review of my forthcoming book, Interbeing. The book in hardback, paperback, and ebook editions will be published this spring by Resource Publications,…

Cat Max, ti voglio bene

Hello, friends, Our dear cat Max, Maxy, Massimo Gatto, died at home after 19 years with us in December 2018. Among other things, he taught us about interspecies care and friendship. Peggy was great with him in so many ways. Here is the poem.…