Gratitude & Awe
Extraordinary moments
I got a card in the mail today. It’s the one year anniversary of my new relationship with my dry cleaner, the one by my newish home I moved to around the same time we met. You might not think…
The Essential Teachings of a Simple Monk.
A year ago last December, on the other side of the world, I stepped off the Adam’s Peak pilgrimage path and into the back of a van, collapsing from exhaustion. The little monk who climbed with us looked over at…
The history of yesterday.
I’ve been traveling and exploring, writing a piece I’ve titled “The History of Yesterday” which is, exactly what it sounds like. I’ll share it someday maybe, but not today. I wrote it by hand, I never do that, but something…
A farm at the edge of nowhere.
My grandmother’s grandparents ( or something like that ) come from a farm at the edge of nowhere. I went to visit once, six hours north of Chicago. Standing out front, an expanse of open nothingness as far as I…
You are the pilgrimage. The pilgrimage is you.
When you were born you joined a wagon train. The train has been traveling for a long time and after you die it will continue moving. At night when you sleep, or during the day at moments of stillness, you…
Stand together
Let’s stand together and hold tight to the vision of what we know we can be. More? bear witness to the unknown When we come together, anything is possible join me
Hate has no home here.
Hate is knocking on our doorsteps. It’s begging to be let in. Even when you turn it away, hate finds ways to seep into our homes, our clothes, our bodies, our very bones. Hate for the choices of others. Hate…
fat, skinny, ugly, beautiful, gay, straight, up, down
I talk to people everyday who don’t look the part, don’t play the part. They don’t love whom society says they should. They don’t talk the mainstream talk. They don’t see the world as black and white. I listen…
What’s a dog know about meditation anyway?
I’ve had lots of dogs. They teach me things. Like how to play and laugh and be unconditional. Unconditional.. that’s a big one. I try and teach them as well but it’s not an even exchange. I have a…