The Root Cause
I’ve been nestled in the warm and terrifying lap called “reckoning with life’s fragility” this week. A couple of significant losses and a...
Holi converges with International Women's Day
Today is simultaneously International Women's Day, and Holi! Holi is the fabulously colorful and creative holiday celebrated around Asia...
The Song Holds the Center
Gather up whatever is gutted. Whatever has had the center pulled out. Don’t just stitch it up; that will never work. Your stitching...
Poem falling, Poem howl, Poem scaffold
I At times poetry is a falling. The stumbling of a thought into a chasm of a place that had been barred and condemned, the precipice of a...
Revolution means a thing comes back
I Thich Nhat Hanh talks about the folly of a Guru who never gets around to planning a picnic. Look it up. The students kept asking for a...
Who I Write For
I just finished an Earth Day Weekend retreat, based in the dharma teachings of the pāramitās, the psychotherapy modalities of IFS and...
may we be reached
bell hooks went out in quite a moment. a tragic repeat, or an opening, a dispersion of earthseed? may we listen...
The Mind. The Myths. The Method. Mantra.
The festival Diwali is marked by this month’s new moon, which falls today, Nov 4th at 2:15pm Pacific. Most consider Diwali to commemorate...
Our collective mother: Instinct
It is Mother's Day, and I am having coffee in a squat red cup, and dark chocolate with sea salt, and that will be my breakfast. We had a...
The Fertile Ground of the 4 'mind-changings'
The preliminaries, or the 4 mind-changings, as they are sometimes called, are simple, profound teachings, and of course they are also...
