March, Listening
I don’t know how to listen to myself, and so I don’t know how to listen to others, so desperate am I to be heard. – A letter to Sophia The biggest question that came out of my February practice was:...
View ArticleSource Code
I am spiraling down, down, down into the ascension. I am disoriented. I have merged with nothing. I am standing inside the source and I can’t understand anything. I never pack right for this trip, I...
View ArticleSweet Weeping
For Keri One hundred yards back, looking towards the clearing, I see the drops gleaming. Shining all the way down. It is dry. My coat rubs electricity out of the air and sends it snapping out my...
View ArticleStill Listening
The reflection piece for my March practice of Listening is taking a long time. I keep working on it, and working on it, and it’s not right yet. It doesn’t feel right yet – something is amiss, but I...
View ArticleEveryone Talks in the New Conversation
“I still treat email to me as though it were considered correspondence. And I feel as though I have a responsibility to answer my correspondence. But I think that as we become more sophisticated, we’ll...
View ArticleJuly, Perspecitve
Intention I am halfway through my year-long project of Living Practice, and it feels like a good time to work on Perspective. Perspective is among the more rational values I value, one that embraces...
View ArticleImmaculate Capitulation
I could linger here for hours, sinking deeper into the busy stillness, that unwinds when I bed down in the sweet grasses, and watch the world work. Beetles, blossoms, birdsong. The swollen heat of...
View ArticleAugust, Acceptance
Arguably, as a doorway to space, this should have been the first value I cultivated. But the truth is, Acceptance takes a lot of courage, and through some combination of building that up, and being...
View ArticleThe Intimacy of Proximity and The Privilege of Distance
The Power of Presence I have watched my relationship with my children evolve from me as a frustrated, ineffective power-broker, to one where I listen more, listen differently, and am less invested in...
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