A weaving of prose and poetry. Story telling is not merely for entertainment. We are constantly telling ourselves stories, interior verbalizings, daydreamings, enactments and re-enactments of situations that have happened and ones that might happen. By and large, story telling is the way we humans make sense of relationships, the world and the universe we find ourselves in. Suffering arises in not seeing we are caught in a story of our own making. Suffering arises in not seeing our story is also the making of others. It also arises when we believe the story should be fixed for all time and we struggle to keep it so and to get others to keep it so. How many universes can dance in the story of your mind?

(If you would prefer to read this essay in a PDF format please click here)   "In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To … Continue reading This Day is for Living

There was a time when the land was experienced as alive and sentient. It was not property. It was not even environment. It birthed all beings and at the right time, received each and everyone, back into her fullness. It was both matrix and mystery and a source of wonder, reverence and awe. Today, in … Continue reading Reflections on Owning Land