Here Today

Inhale, Exhale — The Holiday Farm Fire

I step onto my mat, feeling into my feet the comforting familiarity. Inhale, exhale. Smell…

The Gator King

2020 didn’t just say “hold my beer.” 2020 moved to a swamp in Florida.
On an air boat.
Wearing a gator-skin cowboy hat.
With an…

Faith

We can be Heroes

I fancy myself a scientist but I make impulsive decisions. I value emotions/intuition but my…

Today: I remember the breathing

I was thinking tonight about a talk I went to last November. A whole room full of people breathing…

Seekers

Last week, I became obsessed with a caterpillar.

Singing Frogs

I have started writing poems, a thing I have not done since the morose twilight of my young adulthood. Unlike those…

Today: I walk on desire lines

It happens now 20 or 25 times per hike: walking along, usually on the phone with my parents or brother or a…

Paying Attention: Musings on Monotony

The days are starting to run together. On any individual day I still feel the rhythm of life Charlestoning away. I get up, go for a run or do yoga, eat breakfast, work, text back-and-forth with friends and family, go for a walk with partner and dog, make dinner…

Today: keeping vows

“We’re all monks these days.”