A Mist-Washed World of Endless Emerging Forms
Lately I’ve been waking to a mist-washed world, hills and trees dissolving into each other. I’ve long been drawn to …
Category Archives: Human Consciousness
Feeling the Flow, from Mountain-Top to Marketplace
Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …
A Poet & Artist, Making the Unknown Known
What precipitates the creative process? For poet Mary Oliver, it’s the need to step over “the edge” into something vague …
Is the Universe a Gift or a Prayer Answered?
I’m sharing some poetry by Paul Wittenberger that struck me with their beauty and depth and the questions they raise …
The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette
It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …
Personification & The Interplay Between I and Other
The personification of nature and inanimate objects is age-old, something we humans have done as far back as we remember. …
Evolution Entwined with Love
I like to think this all has meaning, this grand scope of things from the birth of stars to the …
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Redux
I wrote this some time ago and I’m revisiting it now because it describes so well how I’ve been feeling …
Nature and Human Consciousness, No Separation
Every time I write about nature I get deep into human consciousness. You can’t really separate the two. There is …
Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full
There are a few refrains that I turn to again and again when I want to get a clearer sense …
