Intrinsic Heart

Soup and Salad When you mix ingredients in a bowl, it’s a salad. When you bake them, it’s a casserole....

When John F. Kennedy visited NASA in 1962 he talked with many people there.  Each one told him about their...

You, nobly born, reading this.  You have brought yourself to the place where your inner life calls you to something...

Like sunflowers, we are always turning toward the sun.  We may not know it, we may feel as though we...

Lately some old wounds and old fights have been coming up in me yet again.  Evidently the scars are acting...

What does it mean to be original?  In the world of the seemingly mundane, filled with routine, what is original?...

True poetry opens a gateway into another realm. What makes a true poem is not its form, but its power...

When we are unsure, unsteady, what can we stand upon?  In all the ups and downs of life, what is...

Have you ever arrived somewhere and suddenly felt as though you’d come home?  Relieved of all that was weighing you...

I used to have three names – my legal name and two pen names.  The editor of the magazine I...