“You are that which you are seeking.” Saint Francis When I feel lonely, my first thought is that you hold the key to my loneliness. When I feel confused, my first thought is that you (or someone neither of us knows) is more clear, if I can only find them and get...
“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.” Thomas Brown The cormorant and common mure are sea birds that dive half-blind looking for food. As they go from surface to bottom, air bubbles get caught in their feathers, and this makes them shine. Thus, as they...
We are all made delicate or we perish. Isn’t this the cloth our griefs sew? The hard things break.The soft things bend. The stubborn ones batter themselves against all that is immovable. The flexible adapt to what is before them. Of course, we are all hard and soft,...
Spirit like water is a source of life. We cannot live dry. The more we are worn by experience, the more of an inlet we become and the more the waters of life wash out of us. This is why tears come more easily the longer we are here. Perhaps wisdom is nothing more than...
And when we squint, we think we see like a tiger, while the truth like the sun spills everywhere but through our slits. We have all heard the gritty advice that when things get tough, we need to dig in. This often translates to an aggressive, alert stance. We hone...
