I marvel at my neighbor’s dog, Harold. I noticed the other day that he was sitting in the sun at the edge of the carport, unleashed, as his owner worked on his boat. “Huh,” I thought to myself, “Rabia … [Read more...]
Wishing for something that isn’t there
Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, a blank page is merciless. Most of the time it is like a voice calling from the ether with an invitation to speak. In other words, generous. Today though, it was … [Read more...]
Nones and Others
Chances are you don’t care about this. In fact, there is almost a one in four chance you don’t care about this. That is the percentage of “NONES” in the country. “Nones” is a pollsters category that … [Read more...]
53-47%
The parties are over (Juneteenth and Independence Day), and Musselman with its three-hundred and fifty racing souls along with that many organizers and helpers, is on the rise. Then what? … [Read more...]
At the risk of repeating myself…
In poetry and prose, as in preaching, I have insisted that if the sacred is present in our midst, then it has to be as perceptible in the forest of concrete and the smudged ordinary of urban life as … [Read more...]
The Shell of our Affiliations
Did you ever wonder how children learn to think the way they do or why some people embrace one set of morals and values while others adopt very different ones? Closer to home, why do some of you read … [Read more...]
Cheer Leading
I used the Welcome Center as a place to meet-up with a reader from New Mexico who was visiting the region. I did not know him personally before that, but through a friend he had subscribed to my … [Read more...]
Talking Out Loud About Our Dark Side
“Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western (New Age spirituality), but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become … [Read more...]
This is not about Bob Dylan
Way back in 1964 Bob Dylan wrote “My Back Pages,” a song many fans found disconcerting because it seemed to turn away from leftist political orthodoxy. Musically it also took a sharp turn away from … [Read more...]
Colors
How many shades of green? Gazing out on the springtime countryside, especially here in the vineyard-bespectacled Finger Lakes, trying to count the different shades of green is like counting stars in … [Read more...]
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