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...
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...
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...
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...
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, & 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...
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...
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...
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...
There are people in my life who love me and care about me and value me – more of them than I might ever have imagined to be possible. And each of them in their own way is a remarkable gift. I am a different person, a better person, a person more fully myself,...