Bayo Akomolafe, Because modernity centralizes rationality/human experience, and instrumentalizes the nonhuman world as resource for human ends (that is, refusing to see the nonhuman world as powerful on its own terms), power and enchantment are always in short supply relative to deepening demand. One has to make a great effort to leave the homogenizing lull … Continue reading Tending our Souls together(in such a time as this)

Somedays life is like a long dark tunnel, and it's not clear that one will emerge anytime soon into the light. That is what Holy Week felt like this year for me. Everything around me was bright and comfortable and beautiful. I am housesitting in a gorgeous adobe for friends in Taos. This Easter weekend, … Continue reading I Choose Love

Though the world seems crazy off-kilter and so many things beyond our control, we do have choices everyday. Incremental, small choices of attitude and action. They all add up to shift eventually. Our circles of influence are changed. Recently I heard my friend, Todd wynward of TiLT, speak at a gathering. He said, roughly paraphrased … Continue reading #Re-Set # A New Beginning #Imagination

I traversed one of my favorite trails as I did my walkabout in the mountains today. Piedra Lisa literally means, "Beautiful place". For me, it has become a meeting place with the Holy. I go there for my soul to lift off like angel wings when I feel too earth bound. It is a thin … Continue reading Longing

The late Irish poet and theologian priest John O’Donahue published a beautiful book that explores our yearning to belong. I have been devouring it lately with great gusto. He has become my new favorite writer. The late Irish poet/philosopher/priest, John O'Donahue As a seeker of the contemplative life, his words on “presence” ring true to me. … Continue reading On Being Present