Category: Essays

Lost and found. Most public places have one. It’s an ordinary term that contains a metaphor for our lives. What doesn’t weigh us down lifts us up and we find that there can be light, even in darkness.

Continue reading “GOOD NIGHT SUN”

Not all change is the same.  Within the ever changing permanence of the natural world, winter kisses the spring that conceives the pregnant summer, which then delivers the fruit of an abundant fall – only to do it all over again.  Native Americans have an eternal understanding of this principle and it is a large part of who they are.  Perhaps that is why they consistently speak for the earth.

Continue reading “VOICE OF THE EARTH”

Our need for safety and security prompts us to lock the door and draw the shades, but opening doors is what got us here.  Exploring is fundamental to who we are, but if the reward is going to be worth the risk, we need a plan for what we find.

Continue reading “EXPLORERS”

Whether it was your first bike ride or your first ride on a merry-go-round, the most important piece of advice you were likely to receive was  “Hold on!”.   What we grab and hold on to . . . what we don’t let go of . . . that becomes the stuff that our lives are made of.  We go through life with an understanding that if we open our hand, we risk losing our heart.

Continue reading “THE LONG EMBRACE”

If we could talk to the animals, would we end up talking to ourselves?  The us and them of creation is really a “we”. How we see ourselves affects everything as much as everything affects us. Take a look. 

Continue reading “MR. ED, IS THAT YOU?”

If seeing is believing, then the truth has to be about more than what meets the eye.  How do I know this?  What if I said a little bird told me?

Continue reading “THE TRUTH ABOUT WOODCOCK”

What do you think you’re doing?  Who hasn’t been stopped by that question?  It’s one that constantly stalks us along the path from child to adult.  In fact, it’s a bigger question than most of us ever realized. 

Continue reading “BIG QUESTIONS”

What gives life its dimension is less about the size of life than the sides of life.  We wake up to face the day and after a time, the story of our life can be seen in our faces and those we’ve come to know along the way.

Continue reading “FACES”

How we travel is as much a part of our journey as the destination.  Sometimes, it can even determine the nature of the future we are heading to.

Continue reading “SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE”

There’s an artist in each of us.  Whatever the medium, we all manage to fashion a view of the world that can only approximate the one we actually live in.   

Continue reading “PAINTINGS”