This is a different sort of story than you’ll usually find on this website, a story from a another life many years ago. In those days I was a freelance writer, writing under three different names (more about that in...
When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am...
Love has taken away my practices and filled me with poetry. I tried to keep quietly repeating No strength but yours, but I couldn't. I had to clap and sing. I used to be respectable and chaste and stable, but...
When you think about the teachers who gave you something valuable, some were kind and some were fierce. There were those who took something away and those who opened a door to something new, those who showed you your strength...
The Opening of Eyes That day I saw beneath dark clouds, the passing light over the water and I heard the voice of the world speak out. I knew then, as I had before, life is no passing memory of...
The sun is many times larger than the moon, and when the tiny moon blocks our view, we call that an eclipse. And from where we stand, that is what things look like. But if we were standing somewhere else—another...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.
