…soul is the delicate yet durable cloth woven …
It has been said that the greatest addiction that we ALL share is our own thinking. We are addicted to the way in which we as individuals and cultures think. The way that we think, the manner in which we process information and experiences that, all of this goes by unchallenged and unquestioned.…
How much is enough? This question faces us each day that senseless violence seems to tear away at the dignity and livelihood of our world and existence. Violence does not always come by way of external weapons alone. Indeed, the source of violence comes many times from broken or confused hearts.…
How do you deal with your addictions? Do you recognize that you have any? And if so, do you fret when they appear again and again despite your best intentions and beat yourself up over their domination in your life? I know that my habitual ways of thinking about things and the behavioral pathways that this compulsive thinking takes me down can seem quite dark and lead me to look at myself with less than compassionate eyes.…
Oh hollow beauty
you too seem sweeter
now from a depth
I could not first see
Is it true the darkness
holds light more brilliant
where colors glow
in unknown caverns
Dare I lean toward
or welcome its leap
the night’s breath
on my soul’s cool neck
Shall I answer in kind
with resonant hum
the unseen eyes
whose gaze I am
tpt 1/19/18…
How do things grow? Scientifically, of course the growth process of plants and animals and all life can be scientifically explained, but to the everyday eye, life and growth maintains a mystery. One day a seed is planted in the ground, and then several days later (or longer), something breaks through the earth and begins reaching toward the sun and out across the ground. …