A Poet’s “Sense Sublime” – Part III, “Some Tragic Falling Off”
Language is that which gives rise to difference, to the desire for difference, and, at the same time, the desire …
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Humor, It’s Serious Stuff
Recently I’ve come across several blogs that use humor (the ironic, tongue-in-cheek, tending toward the ludic, the whimsical, the carnivalesque) …
Our Quest for Wholeness – Part II of “Some Tragic Falling Off”
“Duality, difference, and desire presuppose “some tragic falling off” from an original (mythical or otherwise) world of undivided wholeness.” So …
“Some Tragic Falling Off” into Difference and Desire
I’ve been thinking a lot about desire and loss lately and remembering a paper I wrote exploring this topic. It …
Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
Meditation at Lagunitas By Robert Hass All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old …
“Taste and see – I am spare”
That age-old question “who am I?” haunts us from birth. We sense we are more than what we seem to …
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 …
Help Me Celebrate a Writing Milestone
I just finished writing an 85,000 word novel that I’ve been working on the past couple of years. It feels …
“Perfect Love” – An Antidote for All that Ails Us
The highest common denominator for all spiritual practices and religious teachings, as I’ve come to understand, is Love. That is, …
Houseless, not Homeless
Once when I was part of an effort to end homelessness in our community, one of the participants who had …
