“The cut worm forgives the plow.” William Blake The worm is one of the only creatures that grows from being cut. Mysteriously, if you cut a worm in two, each cut half becomes whole, and you have two worms. What is it in how the worm lives that allows it to grow from...
“If I contradict myself, I contradict myself. I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman We create patterns that others depend on, and then the last thing we ever imagined happens: we grow and change, an then to stay vital we must break the patterns we created. There is no...
The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes. At times in my life, i have wanted love so badly that I have reimagined myself, reinvented who I am, in an attempt to be more desirable or more deserving, only to discover, again and again, that it...
“Nothing among human things has such power to keep our gaze fixed ever more intensely upon God than friendship.”-Simone Weil I have been blessed to have deep friends in my time on Earth. They have been an oasis when my life has turned a desert. They have...
In release, we begin. Once when I was six, I chased a butterfly halfway through the reservoir before cupping it in my boyish hands. I had the beautiful thing, but couldn’t see it. To see it, I had to let go. I kept my hands cupped as long as I could, past nose...
