grace: a surprise from the universe
This is a true story. It happened several years ago, when I was still working full time. It was early on a Saturday morning when I set out with a [...]
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Dec, 2019
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Dec, 2019
Book Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hey, it's getting cold and rainy here: perfect time to take refuge in books! Enjoy! My edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God had plenty of literary and historical notes [...]
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Nov, 2019
Making Up Stories: my spiritual practice
Do you remember that scene in Out of Africa when Meryl Streep, playing Karen Blixin (later known by her nom de plume Isak Dinesen) was hosting Robert Redford and Michael [...]
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Sep, 2019
Peacock Dreams
In her dream, Charlotte forgot that her husband was dead. Her dreaming self did seem to know that Rob was absent. In this imagined space, he had left to get [...]
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Aug, 2019
The Marine Mammal Center
Thirty-something years ago, I was hiking with friends in the Marin Headlands when we came across a cyclone fence enclosing a small yard. Inside the yard were two or three [...]
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Jun, 2019
In Celebration of the Solstice: Abundance
In early June comes a five-day period when every peach on the tree arrives at a perfect skin-splitting ripeness and you race the birds rushing into the back yard with [...]
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Jun, 2019
New Book!
Greetings Blogosphere! I am excited to announce that I am releasing another book, a brief collection of short short stories (aka "flash fiction") and essays. It's called Wild Imaginings. Currently [...]
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Apr, 2019
God of the Starling, God of the Murmuration
I wrote this a year ago at Easter, long before any of us had heard of Corona Virus. During this extraordinary time in our lives and history, I wanted to [...]
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Apr, 2019
The Humor of Everyday Life
Prompts: Still a vigorous man, three doors where your life is headed, work clothes come off, modern attachments, the French was on the boards, ride my indoor bike, mosaics with [...]
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Dec, 2018
Juicy
Every year on Pearl Harbor Day, I like to tell the story of my late mother, who was picking oranges with her best friend on December 7th, 1941, when they [...]