Welcoming The Stranger
My husband, children, and I have lived in 7 countries for the last decade and a half. We have always been the strangers knocking on new...
An Ode To Low Expectations
o there i was, staring at my mug of tea. It was 1993. I was sitting over a plate of eggs in the New Piccadilly Café in Soho,...
What Exactly Is Love?
Fear is not love, dependence is not love, jealousy is not love, possessiveness and domination are not love, responsibility and duty are...
Look Around In Wonder
Look around, look around, Look around in wonder, Trace the thunderous cloud above That feeds the river under. Look above and look...
Be Vigilance
Vigilance is often misunderstood. Usually what passes for vigilance is careful monitoring by the superego. I'm sure you're very...
Gamble On Humanity
What if the future is soft and revolution is so kind that there is no end to us in sight. Whole cities breathe and bad luck is bested...
How Much Silence Is Too Much?
Ours is a noisy country. We’ve been rebellious, insolent shouters since the beginning. We invent freak shows and circuses and...
How We Wrestle Is Who We Are
I remember pacing hospital and house and hills, and thinking that his operations would either work or not and he would either live or...
Appearance As A Gift
Our whole experience of life is a relationship. Every single moment is centered in the way we relate to what is happening. To...
Good Bones, Pushing Water
We had a small water crisis at our home this week. The break happened within a wall, and so we didn’t realize at first that a...
Small Kindnesses
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers...
Two Stonemasons
Consider the story of two stonemasons. you walk up to the first stonemason and ask, ‘Do you like your job?’ He looks up at...