Sunday Talks

A few weeks ago I listened to a podcast about sea otters in the Pacific Northwest. Otters are one of my spirit animals, so I was emotionally invested from the start. And this story took me for a spin, let…

Our back yard is carpeted with morning glory sprouts. They’re coming out of every space between the pavers, every pot, every patch of dirt. Also in random clumps of debris and piles of leaves that have accumulated in the corners.…

Sometimes when I’m offering an invocation or prayer, I’ll start off by saying something like, “You can close your eyes and let your attention rest within, or you can keep your eyes wide open to the beauty all around you…”…

Sometimes I don’t feel very smart.  I bump up against situations that I have no idea whatsoever how to fix.  I doubt that I know how to do what I’m trying to do.  I wonder whether I’ve got what it…

I don’t like to do things half-way. Not half-hearted, half-baked, half-awake, or half-assed. If I’m going to do something, commit to something, anything, I want to give it my all. For me, usually, this has tended to occur like great…

I can’t do the talk that I thought I was going to do this week.   I hadn’t written much yet, but I had a little idea, and a cute title based on a butt joke, and I was looking…

I tend to hold my theology loosely.  The nature of “the Divine” and what in heaven’s name that even means… Humanity’s relationship to “It” and our creative potentialities within It… How we’re all connected to each other and to everything. …

There’s a theory regarding group dynamics that offers that in any group of people — a class, a team, a cast, a workplace, a family — everyone will take on the personality “type” of one of the Seven Dwarfs from…

Paul Simon wrote some great tunes about mothers: Mother and Child Reunion in 1972, and Loves Me Like a Rock in 1973, maybe others… They always come to mind for me around Mothers’ Day when I’m considering what to talk…

My friend Sandy shared with me that she often describes our Albuquerque arts communities as a culture not where people come to “make it” but where they can actually make it. Where the focus is on making art more than…