The interlocking life

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Hello friends, As I look back on my three books on aging and my memoir, Taking a Long Road Home, I realize that this whole writing enterprise has been about searching inwardly on the contemplative path to live more creatively and spiritually.…

The language of God

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Hello friends, In the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching, we are told that the invisible ultimate is present in its manifestations. The sacred infuses the secular. Or, in the voice of Simone Weil, the world is the language of God. I become more…

Gratitude in meditation

Hello friends, here is a poem from "Chewing Down My Barn," my second book of poems [2014]. While I'm thankful for all family and friends, and institutions that helped me along the way, "A Thanksgiving for Strangeness" underscores gratitude for…

Lines for winter

Hello friends, studies show the third week of January is the most depressing week of the year. The holiday bills come flooding in, the news echoes the threat of a snow-and-ice event this weekend, and the sun still sets darkly by 7 o'clock.…

Memory and aging

Hello friends, memories ebb and flow as I get older, and nature offers her symbols. Here's a reflective poem about my mother sparked by a butterfly in my garden. Sometimes even nature needs an assist to create beauty in a memory, however distant.…