We’ve heard older citizen say, in my day, and then recount experiences of the past. But what if we linked aspects of our days with moments of intention or attention, what would a day become for us? There is a moment when we awaken from sleep. Do we groan? Oh no, do I have to? […]

Fifty years ago when I was writing children’s novels I would sometimes get stuck in the plot. My friend, Annie, also a children’s author, would come to visit, and we’d help each other get un-stuck in our stories by playing a game we called, What If? With a pot of tea on the table between […]

Reading the beautiful and truthful words of other writers I am in awe. This month I want to share the gold: quotes that have meaning and beauty for me. Sharing the gold seems to make the treasure bigger. Phrases Posted on Facebook, March 2019 In the mood of contention that we have in our country […]

In a wintering time we are sometimes led kicking and screaming to a quiet stop where parts of our lives are consolidated and made apparent, usually things that have been ignored for a long time. Wisdom tells us not to resist this. The questing part of us has to allow the soul to catch up […]

Here in New England winter cold surrounds us. We need warmth to protect us not just from the freezing weather but also from the iciness of disregard. We are vulnerable beings that need each other’s care. There are so many structures mankind has created in order to be sheltered. There are lean-tos, tents, cardboard boxes, […]

Today is the first Sunday in Advent and the first night of Hanukkah. Both have a time of waiting tucked into them: a holy child to be born, and consecrated oil to last eight days for the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem. Sometime during every day all of us will have a time of […]

To will is to have and intend a purpose. To be willing is more diffuse. It is to be available to respond and so perhaps to take up a particular action. Paradoxically the word will is in the word willingness. Looks like a wedding, doesn’t it? It seems to me to take some will to […]

I’d like to tell you a story post by post. The story is about RiverFlow. Several years ago when my partner, Stanley was still alive, the story of RiverFlow began. Stan was then in the advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease. Once a creative dynamo, he became a prisoner of his body. I believe that because […]

What if we had the humility to embrace in an evolutionary way that a need for meaning has us rather than the other way around? Then, tending to that meaning that is already in us with its purpose, would guide us more surely than if we thought we were in charge. A friend of mind […]

Summer is vacation time for many and for some it is the time they work the hardest. In any case, leisure needs to be part of our lives. When we consider leisure we are considering a relationship to time. There is a quality of timelessness when we truly enter leisure.  Feeling, even for a day, […]