Passing Through a Doorway
OLD MAN PASSING THROUGH A DOORWAY I’m looking for that place inside you where everything passes through you, where you’re...
Coming Home to Yourself
REUNION This is how it is: one part of you journeys forth while the other stays at home to wait...
Sing, Sing, Sing
However we sing our song, however our life is expressed, we are each a unique and valuable expression of the...
Nobodies and Somebodies: “Dishwashers and Other Forgotten Angels” by Albert Huffstickler
What does it mean to be nobody? One kind of ‘nobody’ identifies as someone who feels less than, unimportant. Another...
Laundromat
This is how Hopper would have painted it:the line of yellow dryers catching the sunlight from the broad window. Man...
The Lost Poem
The Lost Poem My father carried a poem with him all through his internment in Cabanatuan prison camp in the...
I Dreamed I Lived in Austin
I dreamed I lived in Austin with legs like a sparrow and a hungry heart. I was looking for God...
The Cure
We think we get over things. We don’t get over things. Or say, we get over the measles but not...
Magritte, Hegel, and Where Do We Go From Here?
Les Vacances de Hegel - René Magritte This painting by René Magritte shows an umbrella holding up a glass filled...
Meditation in Wyatt’s
It’s been over a year now since I had my mystical experience sitting among the old folks in Wyatt’s Cafeteria...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.