“Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey and the journey itself is home.” Basho Twelve years ago, as my journey through cancer was beginning, my grandmother was dying. I didn’t know I had cancer, but...
“Wrapped within young leaves: the sound of water.” Soseki This delicate observation by this Japanese poet is filled with the quiet hope that embedded in our nature, even as we begin, is our gift already unfolded. Embedded in the seed is the blossom. Embedded in...
In the end, it is not enough to think what we know. We must live it. For only by living it can Love show itself as the greatest principle. The way that heat allows ice to thaw and irrigate the earth, so our capacity to embody what we know – our quiet need to bring...
“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.” Goethe When Edison was discovering the light bulb, he first engaged in a process of envisioning how an unseeable current of energy could be harnessed and turned into light. Like most of us, the vision came first....
Though it is the hardest going, the way is clear. The naturalist and environmentalist Kevin Scriber tells us that salmon make their way upstream by bumping repeatedly into blocked pathways until they find where the current is the strongest. Somehow they know that the...
