The Orionid Meteor Shower, a yearly celestial event, graces our skies as Earth traverses the debris trail left by Halley’s Comet.
Summers in California are rainless and hot, and today was no exception. But the parkland that wends along the creek and through town still affords much foliage and even green…
Instead of scaring up a couple of ducks as I ride down the dirt path to the creek, I surprise a man standing in the middle of the stream. He…
“Meditation is the opening of the door to essence, opening the door to a furnace whose fire utterly destroys, without leaving any ashes.” J.Krishnamurti Descartes was wrong. He should have…
Other than a downpour during the night a couple weeks ago, it was the first rain of the year. Living in a land where it doesn’t rain for four or…
People cross the iron footbridge on bikes or foot on a hazy, lazy, warm Sunday afternoon. I sit about 75 meters upstream from the bridge, and though I’m in the…
The observer is the original separation in the human mind. From this existential mistake all division originates, ending in the war between “my country and your country,” “my religion and…
There have been too many encounters with animals in nature, too many non-coincidental and propitious moments, not to heed them when they occur.