Intrinsic Heart

blessing the boats                                   (at St. Mary's) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond...

What's important and what's not?  We are so small in the vastness of everything that is, but that doesn't mean insignificant.  It means cherished, with a consciousness wider than the sky.  Billions of us - and billions of stars, planets,...

ON THE MOUNTAIN OF FORTH You could lose yourself up here or just as easily find yourself. You could see yourself traverse five counties all at once, repeat the same phrase five different ways, its meaning caught between lilt and...

   ~~~~~~~~~~~ THE JOURNEY One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at...

Primary Wonder Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; cap and...

How much we crave rest, yet how little we truly rest.  A deep breath, a pause in the midst of thought, a quiet moment.  In seeking to be “productive” we look forward to what comes after – the satisfaction and...