O Holy Night, What Stars Give Birth To
“Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.” The single-most, salient symbol of Christmas, for me, is a …
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Listen to Your Life, the Holy, Hidden Heart of It
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and the pain of …
Still Open to the Beauty of the World
“Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this …
Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light
Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …
From Pete the Cat: It’s All Good
One of the joys of grandparenting is revisiting stories I loves to read my own children and sharing them with …
Chaos Can Take a Hike
I wrote the following post For Love of Chaos in August three years ago, when I had my little three …
Art that Mirrors the Inner Essence
I found this photo on the cover of Sun Magazine some years ago and fell in love with it. It’s …
The Insatiable Eye – Sontag on Photography
In her book of essays On Photography, Susan Sontag speaks of the “insatiability of the photographing eye” in our image-obsessed …
On Photography – Researching My Sequel
I’m working on a sequel to my novel From the Far Ends of the Earth, mostly research and note-taking at …
Down the Rabbit Hole with Salvador Dali
One highlight from my trip to Bruges this summer was visiting the Salvador Dali Museum. Dali is celebrated for his …
