The full moon is blood red, in hellish eclipse from the fires near here that killed a grandmother and her two small grandchildren. Literally and metaphorically, the world is on…
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Martin LeFevre
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The clouds clear, and strong sunlight and intense shadows return to the parkland. The big sycamore leaves and the little oak leaves hang motionless in a bright blue sky.
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Lately I’ve been talking about once a week via skype with my radiki in Tanzania, Emmanuel. He’s 27, and works in the environmental sector helping villagers in his region with…
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On one of the hottest days of the year, when the temperature reached near 40 degrees (104), I found a quiet, shady spot by the stream for a meditation. There…
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Like most people, I’m finding hope hard to sustain. If you’re not grappling with hope and hopelessness, you’re either a dead conduit who has given up on humanity, or you’re…
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In Leningrad in January of 1990 (it didn’t become St. Petersburg again until late that year), Vladimir Putin was still in the KGB. Only the year before he had single-handedly,…
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Evidence that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Americans and Canadians culturally comes in the tragic form of a trio of British Columbian thrill-seekers dying in a plunge…
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“The mystical stream has always been an important part of the human experience and the source from which belief systems emerge.”