the golden rule

by | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog

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 they are a crowd of sorrow, who violently sweep your house empty of its...

winter blues

by | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog

“If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.” Pablo Neruda January can be a month full of lessons about patience filled with...

practical magic

by | Jan 2, 2016 | Blog

Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants. Otherwise the mornings before the summer dawn would not be made so...

recognizing beauty

by | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog

“One of the most private things in the world is an egg before it’s broken.” M.F.K. Fisher Sometimes a writer turns an observation into a phrase so astonishingly simple it becomes remarkably profound.  Indeed, most of our lives are invisible. Who we...

le mot juste

by | Nov 1, 2015 | Blog

“Boy, those French.  They have a word for everything.” Steve Martin Vignette – a brief vivid description. I have some French friends whom I refer to as the linguist police.  They never miss an opportunity to correct my pronunciation of their language...

the physics of happiness

by | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog

“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive....