The Big Book of Life
There are so many wonderful books. Some are called "sacred" texts and others simply inspiring or moving or entertaining or challenging or informative. Some are about the spiritual life, some…
Transitions
Western thought is difficult to untangle from Western religion since the latter so often formed the former. We like to be sure of things. Sure there is a God. Sure that sins…
Take. Eat.
A poem from Thedailysip.org Take. Eat. What has so often been a stroll has, today, become a pilgrimage. My old-man black church-shoes, wide and tired are wet with dew but so…
On Disappointment
Something very funny just happened. Well, funny and infuriating. At the end of writing a short-form essay for today’s Daily Sip - this essay- my computer powered down and I lost…
Curious and kind
Sugar-the-dog at a stand-down from hypervigilance - a model for our times Perhaps you have been the unfortunate victim of the conversation-starter “Well, there’s good news and there’s bad…
Vulnerability
These are frustrating days for many of us. We have short fuses. Life has been disrupted and we are often unable to go where we want to go and do…
Astonished
“We were made and set here, the writer Annie Dillard once wrote, "to give voice to our astonishments." The word “astonish” comes from two ancient words “ex” and “tonare”. The word “ex” meant…
Island Times
“I would like to live on that tiny island up ahead.” It was just a thought. It popped into my head while I was on the deck of a ferry…
Giggles
If Kai-the-dog were able to speak, I think he would giggle. Labs seem to have a giggle inside them. I have never met a Greyhound, for example, that seemed to…
the little classroom
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into…