Meditations

And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, And I know that that spirit of God is the elder brother of my own, And…

“The center cannot hold…the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Though these lines from Yeats prescient poem “The Second Coming,” penned in 1919, are…

“Humans are the pinnacle of creation.” That idea has long been discredited. But where do humans fit in the universe, and why we don’t we fit in nature on earth?

It’s more than an hour before dawn. To the east, Venus shines more brightly than I’ve ever seen it, morning or evening. It’s so bright that I’m not sure at…

The commentariat in the United States is not connecting the dots between a narcissistic POTUS having the UN Security Council come to him one day, and making the Senate come…

The only time I heard an internal voice that I was sure didn’t come from my own head was some weeks after Gulf War I. Wherever it came from, the…

Listening deeply to the earth from one day to the next, I could feel the change from one season to the next. The subtle shift from the zenith of spring…

A friend from philosophy grad school days tells me about how he was contacted recently by a scam-publishing outfit, offering to publish a book they proposed. All he had to…