The funny thing about the first few days of a New Year is that I catch myself looking forward quite often. There’s nothing wrong with looking forward, just as there’s nothing wrong with looking back towards where you’ve been, as long as you’re grounded in the present. One of the things I love about Mary…
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts” – William Shakespeare, from As You Like It If New Year’s Day is the day of hope and dreams and resolutions for the future, then January…
Standing out on the jetty thirty feet out in Buzzards Bay earlier this morning looking for that familiar glimmer of sunrise, I realized that the show was going to be too far into the trees over land. It seems Earth’s obliquity, or axial tilt, is so far along that the sunrise is 30 degrees past…
2019 was a year of change for all of us, as every year is, but it felt more profound this year. That has everything to do with writing about it. I know people who made changes on a massive scale, and others minor, but change happens whether we choose it or not. In the spirit…
“Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead Every morning, so far, I’m alive. And now the crows break off from the rest of the darkness and burst up into the sky – as though all night they had…
It’s no secret in my world that I’m a sunrise junky. There’s nothing wrong with sunsets, and I love a good one as much as anyone, but there’s something to be said for earning the show the way getting up early for a sunrise does. There’s also the mindset of the beginning, rather than the…
“The intelligent and the brave Open every closet in the future and evict All the mind’s ghosts who have the bad habit Of barfing everywhere.”– Hafiz, The Warrior “You’ll see the miracles that happen to you when your senses come unclogged.” – Anthony De Mello, Awareness A month ago I had one of those head…
The chess board and the calendar are one and the same. For each demands strategy and each is a game, of reaction and discipline and boldness in kind. I marvel at masters, while struggling to keep more than two moves in mind I marvel at poets as well, for my words betray me as…
“No story lives unless someone wants to listen.” – J.K. Rowling There are two ways to look at this Rowling quote. There’s the story we try to sell to the audience – read my blog or my book, buy my product or service, hire me for the job, let’s do lunch… whatever. The story we…
I’ve come late to Hafiz, and that both saddens and delights me. Three writers I’m following separately pointed me towards his poetry, and I finally woke up and paid attention. Where was that attention all those years when Hafiz was right there all the time? But that’s the way life is in all things. Writing…
