MAKING FUN
It dawned on me recently that all my commitments, convictions, and cares have piled up and hardened up and gotten in the way of me having as much fun as I used to. I mean, I’m still looking for a…
MEET YOU THERE
For years, since first encountering it, I’ve loved the beautiful Rumi saying: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” The concept is so touching and inspiring — the possibility of relationships that…
PEOPLE ARE STRANGE
I’ve had the iconic Doors song in my head for two weeks, since rocking it at karaoke. I think I chose the song because I was inspired by something I read in Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead, which we are…
FOR PROPHET
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” - John Muir Travis and I went to see a documentary at the Guild last week: John Muir, Unruly Mystic. The…
The Activity of Stars
from Journey of the Universe by Brian Thomas Swimme & Mary Evelyn Tucker For stars, creativity depends on maintaining a state of disequilibrium with respect to surrounding space. It is the dynamic tension between gravity and fusion that enables the…