Personal musings and an excerpt from Mark Nepo’s latest book guide us through darkness and life’s messiness — to emerge with meaning and connection — Since books arrive like children, after months of labor, the timing of their arrival is well beyond us. And so, in the midst … [Read more...] about Living What Matters: Reflections, Prose and 52 Prompts for Self-Inquiry
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The Endless Search: One Man’s Journey To Life Expression
How we can inhabit a lifelong practice of listening, expressing and creating to animate our souls ______ Such is my poetry: ironwork-poetry... It is not a poetry thought out bit by bit. It is not a beautiful produce, not a perfect fruit. It is something like the air we all … [Read more...] about The Endless Search: One Man’s Journey To Life Expression
Entrainments of Heart: The Stitch Work of Community
An exploration of community and the connections that nurtures our souls across beliefs, cultures, borders and religions. — There is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to … [Read more...] about Entrainments of Heart: The Stitch Work of Community
Letting Everything In and Through | Explorations of the Human Experience
A poetic exploration of the human experience in all of its guts and glory — Let me keep surrendering myself until I am utterly transparent. —Psalm 19 The ultimate value of staying open is that we’re scoured clean of all that might burden us: memories, wounds, assumptions, and … [Read more...] about Letting Everything In and Through | Explorations of the Human Experience
Being Human: The Poetry of Life
A poet explores 'the way under the way' — the place of true meaning and shared humanity — Over the years, I’ve learned that moments of deep living let us hear a deeper music and explore a deeper meaning to our lives. We can call this foundational geography — the way under … [Read more...] about Being Human: The Poetry of Life
