On Aging and Mortality
Sometimes I wish I were a deer for the sheer wonder of its speed or a beetle, small, hard to see, and with a shell that protects my soft guts…
Five things I learned AFTER being a priest, Canon and monk
When I interview people about why they fund, and go, to church (for an upcoming memoir,) the answers I get never cease to amaze me. And in truth, they were…
A new year of The Daily Sip – thank you to my 22,000 readers!
This ball of clay I used yesterday to make a Ramen bowl is the very best clay. "Why?" you ask. This is amazing clay because of the greenish-grey swirls you…
Shalom
Today I leave for a time of deep rest. My dog Sugar whispered to me that I would be ok, always a welcome whisper. She told me to remember to…
Three Roses
In my youth, I emerged from a dysfunctional and alcoholic family unaware of my wounds and deformities. My father had barely spoken to me over my first 18 years of…
An Average Pooh Bear: An End. And a Beginning
This is the last reference, in non-fiction, referring to the church, for the remainder of my life. (Short of a need to defend myself. perhaps) Today I am bathing in…
The second family
It was overwhelming to receive hundreds of emails (literally, I stopped counting after 200) high-fiving me about something I wrote in a recent thought-offering. I tend not to be the…
Ten Habits in 2022
Daily habits are the secret sauce to a productive and efficient life. Had I found stoicism as a child, and had I not suffered from so much abandonment and abuse…
Bless the heart, not the land.
Fear is the secret sauce of religion. Were one to look through the history of religion, one would see quickly, the ways in which failed crops, drought, disease, economic collapse,…