Denim Spirit: Consonance and Dissonance Double-mindedness can feel like a problem that needs to be resolved. At least I often feel the need to fix it when it takes over my heard or heart. It is … [Read more...]
An Ode to Pie
This is an ode to pie. You may think it a trivial pursuit to praise pie, but I say good pie is one of the finest master strokes of human creativity – culinary or otherwise. First, a word about an … [Read more...]
Too much time to think…
When I wrote this I was in the Berkshires, in that little tail end that peeks into New York and stops before it gets to the Hudson River. There was snow in the woods! Not tons of it but a blanket … [Read more...]
That we do not know what we do not know, is data – got that?
We know so little. Yet without even knowing what we don’t know, we still have to decide. Back in the early 1980’s the Cold War was intensifying. Reagan was pouring huge amounts of money into the … [Read more...]
Sunrise
When is a sermon not a sermon? When it is a newspaper column. This is how you take a sermon, redux it to five hundred words, take religion out of it, and make the spirituality inherent in it implied … [Read more...]
Or
February 14th bathing in the dawning sun watching ducks drift by -- no wind, no gloves, open jacket. Uneasy with this climate change I still soaked it up. Imagine insisting on a choice between wind … [Read more...]
My train is showing
This is dangerous territory. I am going to comment on something beyond my cultural acumen, critiquing something I try not to participate in and don’t understand. The Grammy’s -- as a metaphor not a … [Read more...]
Making Room for Two Things at Once
Here is a favorite saying of mine: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” It’s no less apt just because Vladimir Lenin said it. I am feeling that some … [Read more...]
Thank You!
Thank you. Thank you for sharing in this online spiritual community. I am humbled again and again by its reach across national boundaries and continents, across religious traditions and among those … [Read more...]
Under the Snow
Across the thumb-shaped north end of the lake, if your vantage point is near the mouth of the Lake Tunnel, there is a puffed up open expanse of farmland. By my reckoning it runs between the Geneva … [Read more...]
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