Time to Write

This post also appeared on AgileWriters.org. Today’s writers contend with distractions inconceivable to writers of the past. It has almost become pat to discuss the diversions inherent in living in our modern, digitally connected world. But these problems of instant gratification and endless attention shifting are even more lethal to the creative than they are… Read More

the world comes into you

  the world comes into you and you go into the world from so early you can’t remember the first drink of your mother’s milk the first cry–waves of sound like a lamb’s bleet echoing on the walls and then you learn sometimes the world is too much to let in you stop going outside… Read More

The Invitation of Suffering

This post was featured on http://www.mindfulnessmeditationforrichmond.net Many of us come to mindfulness meditation to feel better. The suffering that drives us may come in different forms–for some it is the acute grief or strife brought on by catastrophic loss, for others the experience of a persistent dissatisfaction with life. Or perhaps it is some combination… Read More