Poverty & Wealth Sometimes seemingly disparate events bring the same thing to mind. Is that the Universe trying to bring something to one’s attention or an element of one’s unconscious attempting to become conscious. Does it matter? Perhaps what matters more what one does with…
Wordlessly Watching He Waits by the Window and Wonders I was in a meeting the other day with a friend who manages my school’s student literary…
Home By Another Road. “Later they were warned in a dream not to return to Herod, and they went back home by another road.” Matthew 2:12 What does it…
I miss the in-between. The Thursday bus driver who always arrives three minutes too early. The familiar faces of strangers all crammed into a box on…
Phoenix Here in a few months, once we’re on the other side of the CoV-19 curve, I think resilience will be a buzzword. In some circles it already is. I…
In Place — Wrote this last week, but apparently didn’t send it out. — Social distancing is the new norm. In Seattle you find lines outside the grocery…
Ineffable Last week one of my professors asked the question, "in the aftermath of trauma, why so much poetry?" Trauma defies language. It is the…
Shame & Desire Last week I made the claim that to solve our shame, we need to address desire. I don’t really want to write about that right now. Yes, I…
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