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A Glimpse of Mortality
The Guest House by Jalaluddin Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks) This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if...
Being a Sauntering Coddiwompler
I am currently listening to the Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Big Magic”, read by the author herself. I am enjoying it and being inspired by it, pretty much in equal measure. I just finished a section where she invites me (yes, it really does feel like she is talking...
LIFE: an ephemeral gift
Today on my morning walk I was listening to Dan Fogelberg’s music. I was thinking about how long I have been listening to that voice and those songs, and I was pondering how much his music has meant to me over a whole lot of years. And then I remembered that he...
The Speed of Change
Sometimes when I look up into the night sky I watch the stars. Tonight I found myself noticing satellites. Quite of few of them soared overhead in the 30 minutes or so that I spent looking up – heading in all different directions. That got me reflecting on...
Singing – Dancing – Praying My Way Into Resurrection
Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in a powerful experience that reminded me of a time when I experienced resurrection. Within the Dances of Universal Peace community there is a practice which centers around singing and dancing the Lord’s Prayer...
16 Years Later – The View From Here…
Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the day my world turned upside down and all the color drained out. It began with a phone call from my daughter – “Come quick! Mom can’t breathe!” A mad dash to the hospital. A hellish scene filled with doctors, nurses,...
I Am Not You
I am not you, & you are not me & thank God for that The profoundly miraculous & mysterious gift of this life Is that each of us are uniquely & wondrously who we are And in the midst of the swirling chaos & beauty of this...
A Fun Day at the Theater
I have started volunteering as an usher at the Fox Theater here in Spokane. It’s an old, beautifully ornate theater downtown where the symphony orchestra plays. Yesterday I worked two performances of the Nutcracker. I worked the mezzanine position, which primarily...
Season’s Greetings 2025
2025 has been quite the year in the life of Roger Lynn. As you may remember from last year’s letter, I moved back to Spokane in October 2024, & spent the first three months wonderfully sheltered in the basement apartment of my friends’ beautiful log home out in...
Pondering Reality, Perception, & Time Travel (sort of)
Lately I’ve been pondering the difference between what is real versus what we often think of as real based on our perception. One of the factors that has weighed heavily in these pondering has been the speed of light. The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per...