525,600 minutes 525,000 moments so dear 525,600 minutes How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife In 525,600 minutes How do you measure a year in the...
Today on my morning walk I saw four of our five planetary neighbors that are currently hanging in the eastern sky like diamonds on a string – Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus (plus the waning moon standing in for Earth) all in order. Mercury was hiding down...
On a recent “Morning Edition” on NPR they played an “Audio Postcard” from Brian Mann (“Spending a day on a forest path in the Silh River valley” – Click Here to listen) It was a beautifully edited piece that offered a...
Yesterday it was Spring. Today it is summer. If you weren’t paying close attention to the date it would be easy to miss. The difference between yesterday and today seems pretty insignificant. But there really is change happening. We might not be able to see it, but...
Let there be Light… At the beginning of the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Scriptures the poetic author offers us a beautiful and inspirational glimpse of the world we live in. “God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3)...
I participated in an intense week-end workshop focused on dramatic and dynamic personal/global transformation. One of the things we focused on was what gets in the way of our transformation, including what the workshop refers to as my “Act,” which is the construct...
When I’m stuck in my head life gets pretty miserable pretty fast. Why is it that I never get stuck in my head with happy, pleasant thoughts swirling around in my brain. It’s always dark, hopeless, “I’m not worthy” thoughts! The solution, when I can manage to...
“What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give...
Click Here for more photos from my time in Rocky Mountain National Park: Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement…get up in the morning and look at the worldin a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal, everything is incredible;...
https://youtu.be/841S35tUd2w To be fully alive requires that I experience and interact with the world around me in real time. In other words, I need to show up and be present in the here and now of each moment. On the morning of June 2, 2022 I had the opportunity...