I am aware that I haven’t written on my blog for a couple of weeks, maybe more. Very odd for me. The times they are a changin’.
What do you say while the hurricane blows? I think you just watch. Bigness is blowing in on personal and collective levels everywhere. I
Have you ever felt that to know someone, to know them, seems more than we can possibly do? Every person, plant, animal, every thing and not thing is a fragment of the Mystery, a fractal, made of the same stuff of which everything is made. If I cannot know “God”
The wall of my office is a patchwork of quotations, scotch-taped cutouts hanging from the bookcases every which way. One of them has been reaching out to me for days.
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer’s hands.
-William Shakespeare
The unconscious works interestingly, in that I have
Look at the news. We have failed economically. Economic recovery is not possible, or desirable. I just watched a film that I wish everyone would see. The Economics of Happiness. I don’t preach anymore, haven’t since resigning from the ministery 17 years ago, but I really want to encourage you
I had a cultural education this weekend in Queens, New York, wild and wonderful. Moving in the jazz world of my jazz musician nephew, Tom Zlabinger, who teaches music at York College in Queens leaves me vibrating with a thousand stories I wish I could tell. 7 years ago Tom
Long years ago I had a dream that will always stay with me. I saw two feet walking, when one hit the ground I heard the word “Spirit”, the next hit the ground and I heard the word “Form.” Spirit, form, spirit, form, spirit, form. The feet kept walking. The
I had a dream not too long ago in which I was witnessing a huge, gorgeous spiral galaxy, the stars twinkling like diamonds against a velvety dark sky. On one of the arms of the galaxy however I noticed a huge mass, like a glut of stars all tangled up
I’m thinking about our young musical talent recently lost, Amy Winehouse, her tragic end mysteriously at the same age as greats such as Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and others. The words of her song keep going through my head. Is there a prescience to them?
Are we
For the last several days thoughts keep occurring to me about Youth, youth itself, as a vital power. More and more the direction culture is heading is to bring children into the world and immediately start their training for adulthood, as if youth is worth little more than providing time for
After living like a hermit for nearly 7 years, now having a room in town and an increasingly busy life because of it, I am finding the thirst for solitude to be an issue. Previously I did not thirst, I was nearly drowning in it. A new balance demands to