My Dad as a poet taught me that life often occurs in couplets/one without the other is less than we imagine! In our own particular moment’s drop of water our is eye seeing life/while life endlessly engages us through the experiences of others: feeling, seeing, hoping.  Both in synchrony are creating the whole within which… Read More »

Walking a labyrinth can be a spiritually enlivening experience related to centering.  It’s a form of meditation, prayer, presence.  This labyrinth is at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.  As a chlld I was there to worship right after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had spoken — just missed a great opportunity! Sometimes in our lives… Read More »

In the time of Jesus of Nazareth the ones attending to all the functions of the physical temple space, its customs, ways, observations, rituals, and swirl of events repeated every year could not figuratively see beyond the walls.  Jews were familiar with the temple as the home of God, the place to become: purified and… Read More »

Earth Day.  Look into the face of creation.  God revealed.  Life sustained!! What could be more obvious than caring for our mother & birther — our blue jewel of a planet. The handiwork of our Creator is art still-in-the-making.  We, within this womb still gestating, are vital participants moment-by-moment in this tensioned & creative evolving… Read More »

Just upstream on the Potomac River from the Beltway in Virginia there is a beautiful park with trails stretching in all directions.  Along the river the trail was densely packed with people.  Back in the woods among the hills and valleys nary a creature was moving except for us quietly observing nature all around us.… Read More »

About to be running late driving to my office suddenly here all around me compelling presence presenting itself in this garb’s peace-infused moment! Pulled over. Got out of the car. Walked out into this presence. Surrounded, filled, & enlivened within its flow! Light & shadows changing by the second. Soft wind wafting. Walked into my… Read More »

Today- Good Friday.  Reflecting- what’s the meaning of going beyond in faith?  Oh the rings and rungs of our lives! Climbing one rung a ladder is usually quite safe. Reaching the top rungs of a ladder in order to do some job is another matter. Being suspended high up while one tetters and totters on… Read More »

    Opening our eyes to the varied concurrent life-yarns threading us all together enlivens us ALL!    At sunset while throwing frisbee for our dogs suddenly this aurora of beauty ignited overhead.  Mentally where was I located in that moment: exclusively focused on my little strings of preoccupation with my play/task with the two dogs… Read More »

In the city in which I was raised we had a huge old train station.  Walking inside of it was always magical.  Throngs of people.  The hustle-bustle of life.  The questions: where are they all going and where are they coming from? One day in the near dark conditions a person noticed a boarded up… Read More »

In Plain Sight? While hiking along a narrow ridge line on a high trail in Glacier National Park, we stopped to view the huge valley and mountains on the other side.  Seemingly infinite space opening before us.  No sound.  No wind in that moment’s niche.  The sheer magnitude of this grandeur right before our eyes. … Read More »