On this All Hallow’s Eve, when it is said that we are sometimes visited by the spirits of the departed, this photo popped up from twenty years ago. I find myself smiling at this reminder of my late wife and me dressed up in silly costumes on our way to a Halloween...
the waning moon shines peeking through the morning clouds savor each moment I’ve been pondering the ephemeral nature of life and the ways in which that quality also makes life ineffable. When I pay attention to each fleeting moment my life is shaped by awe and...
This evening, on a whim, I picked up my book “Keeping My Feet Firmly Planted in the Flow: A Year of Journeying Through Grief & Gratitude” and read through the whole thing in one sitting. It was, as it always is, a remarkable experience. The first third of the...
We are living in very challenging times. And in the face of all the hard and frightening winds which are swirling around us I have sometimes (often) found myself overwhelmed and frozen with fear and uncertainty. But I am slowly (perhaps too slowly) beginning to...
Last night I had a profoundly interesting dream. I hardly ever remember my dreams, or have any awareness of what they might mean, but this one feels right on target. I woke up several times pondering it, and then fell back asleep into the same dream. It began with...
Fifteen years ago today (March 7th), early on a Sunday morning, my beloved wife (Veronica) left her body behind and set off for new adventures on another plane of existence. In that moment, as I stood there hugging her two beautiful daughters, my world turned...
Tonight I was staring up into a dark sky full of stars. They were bright points of light and they were plentiful. Orion and the Big Dipper. Mars shining in that peculiar way Mars does. And it was glorious. But then, after not that many minutes had passed, I...
Sometimes I ponder random things while staring up at the night sky. Tonight’s random pondering was centered on how incomprehensibly huge the Universe is. For example, from where I sit it seems like our planet Earth is pretty big. It takes three or four days of...
For the past couple of months I have had the good fortune of staying with some friends while I’ve been looking for a place to live in my newly adopted city. It has been a huge gift and I am incredibly grateful. They are good people, kind and generous. Their...
Tonight I caught a brief glimpse of something vast and expansive. It began with an actual, visual glimpse (in this case it was a lone star shining briefly through the clouds). But what unfolded before me (and, perhaps, within me) was far more than anything visual...