new moon~

Scorpio is often described as the secret keeper. This negative association has a positive interpretation that holds better truth; it is a privacy it seeks and establishes, so as to more deeply spend time with a knowingness or new truth it needs to test out, not a...

A picture show: opportunity to continuously reengage

I ran into Merton again Just as I am over him I turn a life corner and there he is reentering my line of sight I am transported once again seeing through eyes that saw so well the discongruent discordant yet harmonious pull of life in all its guises he a monk activist...

don’t get me wrong

I recognize after 54 years of repetition that this conviction will pass just as it sets in makes impassioned enlightened sense I type these few lines into the blank page blog this letter to a self I may or may not face down the road sometime in the future turned as it...

At last a decent perspective

It feels like lifetimes yet I know that is just a result of the moments that have accumulated and their surreal memorial a shifting dynamic of what was once thought to be normal. The mystery lies not in the ambiguity but in the realization that it offers the very...

I have something to say here

What words do you use when you have something to say yet your chosen vocation disallows the use of voice no auditory resonance allotted to the ones such as yourself Merton struggled from this platform to give us lines that change lives believing as he did that the...

Receiving an honor

It today’s language one might call it a gift -or grace or blessing, in some circles. The light of a bird with late spring exuberance thrumming itself against my kitchen sink sitting quietly for the clearest of a heartbeat before winging itself back through the...