“Walker, there is no path, you make the path as you walk.” Antonio Machado I listened carefully as he described his little girl’s first steps. He encouraged her to keep her eyes on him, and only when she didn’t, did she stumble. Only when she lost her focus, when she...
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I saw a woman singing while pregnant and imagined how the rhythms of song affected the life forming within her; imagined the song drawing her unborn...
I tried so hard to please that I never realized no one is watching. I imagined, like everyone else at school, that my parents were sitting just out of view like those quiet doctors behind clean mirrors, watching and reprimanding my every move. As I reached adulthood,...
“Where love is deep much can be accomplished.” Shinichi Suzuki Despite our culture’s over-emphasis on doing, there is a rightful place and time to get things done. In truth, there is very little we can not do. Much of the time we just lack either the ability to...
“We shouldn’t abuse God’s creatures. You must reverse the haiku, not: a dragonfly; remove its wings— pepper tree. but: a pepper tree; add wings to it—dragonfly.” The Japanese Master Basho, in response to Kikakou’s poem The destruction or healing of the world hinges...
