Opinions are Boring
It’s high school basketball season, and I’m organizing my life around my daughter’s home games. We’ve been sitting next to another family who we are just getting to know and found out recently that the [...]
Enough for the Winter
Anyone else feeling hibernation coming on? As usual, I turn to my favorite book in December, Gayle Boss’ All Creation Waits. It’s a portrayal of 25 different animals in winter and how they survive. No meditation [...]
Get Quiet
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but [...]
Getting Sober
I went to another memorial today at The Lighthouse Mission. It used to be once a quarter, then every other month, and now it’s every month, many of the deaths overdoses. Today we remembered “Mikey,” [...]
Doing it for Love
I listened to this amazing podcast this week and wept at some of the stories Jack Kornfield told. One was about the poet, naturalist, and activist Gary Snyder who has been working on environmental justice for decades. [...]
We Don’t Heal Alone
“Resilience is best understood as a characteristic of communities rather than individuals. Resilience isn’t personal grit; it’s the capacity of a neighborhood or community to respond, mitigate, and adapt to crisis.” (Daniel Aldrich, quoted by [...]