"We are witnessing [a world on fire]...the phoenix falling into the ashes and rising again. We are participants...intimately connected to this planet, and part of a cycle of evolution, a reshuffling of how we will engage with global life...it is a time of healing and inner transformation, awakening. Hopefully it brings out the very … Continue reading Restarting the World

  Recently, a friend of mine wrote some wise words. Reminding us that we are not the first, nor shall we be the last to experience pandemic disease, social unrest, violence, wars, calamities in our lifetimes. Sometimes it helps to put things in perspective. We have such a limited notion of time. We are quick … Continue reading Perspective

  A beautiful poem by Dzung Vo about suffering and places of refuge: i can’t breathe said George Floyd the knee of four hundred years of racism on his necki can’t breathe said the woman with fear in her eyes her lungs attacked by coronavirus as she was put onto the ventilator i can’t breathe … Continue reading Breathing together

“I Happened To Be Standing” by Mary Oliver I don’t know where prayers go, or what they do. Do cats pray, while they sleep half-asleep in the sun? Does the opossum pray as it crosses the street? The sunflowers? The old black oak growing older every year? I know I can walk through the world, … Continue reading On Praying

― Unknown (written in 1944, WW2, on the wall of a cellar, by a Jewish prisoner in the Cologne concentration camp. Found by Polish construction workers) “I believe in the sun even when it is not shining And I believe in love, even when there’s no one there. And I believe in God, even when … Continue reading I Believe