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 From  Innocence Regained: Christmas Poems So much is missing now, so much is taken from us. We define our lives by absences, by cannot-have...

You get to be 49, and you realize there's not TOO much more time to shape your life. As the kids get older, more independent, and, perha...

I used to pretend to believe in God. Mainly, I liked so much to talk to someone in the dark. Think of how far a voice must have to travel to...

“We have enjoyed fine dreams; we have dreamed of unifying the world; we are unifying it—against us.”

I'm attending a conference in Denver. In a session on power dynamics, the presenters made the suggestion to journal about where you are ...

“At some point the press needs to stop adopting right-wing framing that this is a 'DEI purge' and call it what it is — white suprem...

"Attention is love, what we must give"

Today, I am unsettled. Itchy. Twitchy. Looking for things I can organize. Order I can create with a little effort. Exerting a little petty c...

Assume it’s in the kitchen, under the couch, high in the pine tree out back, behind the paint cans In the garage. Don’t try proving your lov...

Three days into the new year, and despite the lack of adequate light, our white phalaenopsis orchid has eased open a third delicate bloom. P...

It’s when the earth shakes And foundations crumble That our light is called To rise up. It’s when everything falls away And shakes us to the...

Let rain be rain.      Let wind be wind. Let the small stone     be the small stone. May the bird     rest on its branch, the beetle in its ...

Last night I dreamed ten thousand grandmothers from the twelve hundred corners of the earth walked out into the gap one breath deep between...

I want to give myself utterly as the maple that burned and burned for three days without stinting and then in two more dropped off every lea...

We give thanks. We give thanks for hope, and that change is possible. We give thanks for this moment, and for our lives. We give thanks for ...

  (Title taken from the first line from Leonard Cohen’s song, Anthem) “Let this darkness be a bell tower / and you the bell. As you ring, /w...

  I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I know is that it is more ancient than imagining. That it travels across an astounding expanse...

once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of sn...

 Modified from: "Just Like Me Compassion Practice"  Become aware that there is a person in front of you... A fellow human being ju...