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On Seeing a Detailed Map of Old Town, Albuquerque I notice the empty space where there is no map, only theater of man and myth, where there ...

Love Transcends Love Transports Love Transforms Love Translates

On my way to the fertility clinic, I pass five dead animals. First a raccoon with all four paws to the sk...

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving th...

for sadness. Simply to breathe next to a stream that slips to the gutter near your house would be enough. To see, next door, in the graveyar...

The beauty of summer nights is how they go on – light lingering so long we can imagine ourselves immortal. For moments at a time. And winter...

You are good You have always been good Right from the beginning I’m sorry that anyone told you otherwise This breath This head, These hands ...

We learn to love by loving. We practice with each other, on ourselves, in all kinds of relationships. And right now we need to be in a rigor...

And later, when she asks I’ll say  some parts of it were beautiful- how in their brightness and sudden opening the faces of the neighbors be...

This morning the beautiful white heron was floating along above the water and then into the sky of this the one world we all belong to where...

 What else can I help grow around me?

 What's the line between escape and a joy practice? (What is numbing and what is resting?)

"the logic of justice"  Why is it that I agree that it's a myth that there is a logic of justice for any individual (i.e. you ...

"You do not rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems."

Regret  nothing. Not those years  when you were a single mother,  bologna casserole, and not enough  money for heat. Or the years before,  ...

 I will hold myself open. Where I am closed, I am false. When I am open, I can lead in love.

I am swinging from an almost euphoric feeling of well-being and rightness and gratitude to overwhelm and exhaustion and resentment at all th...

 What are my intentions for myself in 2022? Intention = to stretch toward To feel connected to the church as it stretches To seek out opport...

 April 2019