“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.” E.E. Cummings On the way to Chimayo, a woman saw two Spanish farmers repositioning the stones in a riverbed to redirect the flow; she felt compelled to help. She had the...
“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty – that is all you know on earth and all you need to know.” John Keats These are the famous last lines of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” uttered by the young English poet dying of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four. The poem is an...
“Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand.” Seng-Ts’an Like most people I know, I struggle with taking too much on, with doing too many things, with moving too fast, with overcommitting, overplaying. I’ve learned that I must move,...
No matter where we dig or climb, we come upon the fire we left untended. Carl Jung had a dream that he was cutting a path in the woods, unsure where it was leading, but working hard at it nonetheless. Tired and sweating, he came upon a cabin in a clearing. He dropped...
When feeling urgent, you must slow down. I learned this, over and over, during the many crises of cancer. Unless someone is bleeding or can’t breathe, unless there is some true physical requirement to act swiftly, a sense of urgency is a terrible illusion, a trick...
