Meditations

The animal spotted me jogging up the path in the park. It stopped and turned about 100 meters ahead, and then again at 75 meters. It was the size and…

The smaller of the two creeks, just beyond town (and soon to be enveloped by it), is running full and strong again after a few good storms. One almost forgets…

Five horses, led by a woman with small boy sitting behind her, his pony tethered to her horse, traipse by on the narrow path. Each of the other horses has…

If you want to understand America in 2013, consider Chicago. The slaughter of African-Americans, mostly by gangs in segregated sections of Chicago, has reached pandemic proportions, with 506 murders in…

It’s the third day of a new year, in the as yet to be determined lucky or unlucky number 2013. I’m not getting any traction, so I decide to sit…

From inside, the day is uniformly gray and dreary, as another in a long series of storms off the Pacific discharges rain and wind in northern California. But on the…

I don’t know which is worse. Theists on the right who push their self-projected image of Jesus to promote consumerism and corporatism, or atheists on the left who deny the…

After three days of clouds and rain, the sun emerges slowly and unsurely in the afternoon, as if the earth isn’t quite ready for direct light and warmth. Masses of…