The State of Our Imperfect Unions
I broke my television-news fast to watch the State of the Union speech last week. (I’ve been choosing to ingest news in less emotional, more balanced written form, mostly through The Week.) Early the next morning, I lay awake, processing what I’d witnessed. It wasn’t...
The Value of Experience
My editing work is influencing my spiritual life again. I love it when that happens. I consider it a great honor to get to read what I edit—and to edit spiritual works so that often what I read is edifying, and sometimes challenging, for me. I value the experience,...
Pondering Tomatoes and Abundance
Back when I lived in New Mexico, I had large vegetable gardens and shared a lot of posts about the wisdom I learned while gardening. Tomatoes showed up in those posts because they are a prolific favorite, and because an abundance of tomatoes sometimes left me with...
A Focus on Paradox in the New Year
Welcome to 2019! The year is less than a week old and already I’m encountering a paradox. Last Sunday I shared how I spent 2018 coming to terms with the continued shift in focus of my business—with less spiritual guidance and retreat leadership and more writing and...
Advent Commitments: Letting Go of Expectations
Christmas is just a couple of days away. In fact, many of us will begin the celebration tomorrow evening. I have fond childhood memories of placing luminarias around our house and atop our adobe-style walls and rooftop on chilly winter afternoons. As the sun set each...
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