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Northern New Mexico Hummingbirds, bees and I share waves of intense purple. Hummers and humming, at my fingertips. Tears of gem-like blossoms, at my feet, fallen. Musical notes of amethyst, to replay over and over— lullaby,...

As her back bends, and her pelvis tilts, I imagine I feel, in every muscle and bone, her pain. In my mind, Libby and Chatty hit the court to duke out an answer— Perhaps it’s time you get into the game. To give up, for tights of...

And at what risk? Whenever I hear my first generation parents talk of America— the great wars, Vietnam, the Nixon years, civil rights and other seismic moments— I never detect anything but a deep, yet sometimes despairing, love...

it’s best to realize that most or many believers at least evangelicals believe scripture literally contains a lot of truth instead of the more realistic view that the scribes who wrote it were giving their best flawed take on...

in joining the poor and dispossessed in downsizing preparing to move to a senior campus in cleaning out files deciding what to toss I found memories of when my eldest moved to Bogotá and apparently I don’t remember we...

to the morning ritual step one gather equipment paper pencil pen notebook booklet clipboard step two walk naked striving to hold yourself vulnerable to truth and beauty step three prepare your place of meditation step four sit...

through the pane the world walks by oblivious

first day of Advent I listen to hear the stirring of hope in my heart

slowly cleaning my house making room for Christmas

each new season life turning over without you

You had a thought a realization a feeling a knowing that your path would be marked by overturned and uneasy stones that would lose your footing after they promised to keep you safe. They let you sink, without a tree limb in...

I experienced a profound scene today at TAT, an eighty-year-old, Italian restaurant in the east end of Columbus, now deteriorated into an area in which it would be wise to wear a bullet-proof vest. Slouched in a booth, eating...