Cultivating “a mind of winter”
I fell in love with Wallace Stevens’ poetry when I first read “The Idea of Order at Key West” in …
Category Archives: Human Consciousness
“A Strange and Beautiful” Entanglement
Recently, when most needed, I came across the essay “A Beautiful and Strange Otherness” by Wisdom Bridge founder, Francis Weller. …
True Ghost Stories, Part VI – Evil Incarnate
The dark creatures that haunt our dreams and come to us as waking nightmares take many shapes or forms, but …
The Joy of Aging
Oliver Sacks wrote a piece for the New York Times last month called “The Joy of Old Age (No Kidding!)”. It ended …
Epitaph for a Tombstone – Exploring Infinity
I came across this recently, something I wrote years and years ago. So much has changed since then, but not …
Living Life Through a Lens, What We Gain and Lose
How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …
Tremble of a Leaf, Balancing Interior and Exterior Lives
I wrote this poem as a grad student while living in that highly interior world of academia. I’d been feeling …
The Pieta and 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 …
Into the Flow, Mountain Top and Market Place Experiences
Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …
Lightness of Being, Unbearable and Otherwise
I fell in love with the title of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” before I ever read …
