Kazoo Player And The Symphony
Imagine there is a great symphony orchestra in a great concert hall and in front of it, like an absurd comedy act, sits a clearly nervous...
It Doesn't Matter If You Believe In It
Gravity is a universal law of nature. It doesn't matter if you believe in gravity. You are still governed by its laws, and there is...
What I Learned From Trees
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and...
We Contain Multitudes
Walt Whitman once wrote, "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain...
Generosity Helps Us Accept Change
The aim of practicing generosity is twofold, or else it’s an incomplete experience. The first aim is to free our minds from the...
Green Mountains Are Forever Walking
I've been fascinated by this process of birth and death. I was a midwife for seven years, delivering babies in the bush and it...
Signals Even GPS Cannot Detect
Returning to the US was always hard for me, in part because I began to notice how GPS technology was eroding what was left of our...
Two Kinds Of Resistance
The light begins its slow return to places in the North, and today a new year begins. Some people are saying it is already “too...
My Word Of The Year
My word of the year is listen. It’s one of those words whose meaning is in its music. Listen is a quiet word, that half...
Who Is My Neighbor?
Some thirty years ago, I went into sermons from the early third century into the nineteenth century dealing with this story of the...
How Observation Changes Relationships
When we sit in silence what do we do? We sit and observe the voluntary and involuntary activities of the body and mind. Slowly the...
Three Stages Of Perceiving Impermanence
Impermanence is just appreciating the normal changing-ness of each experience at deeper levels of poignancy. One way to think about this...