Spokane is burning. For the past three days, wildfires have devastated Spokane, where I live and work. More than 700 structures are burned, most completely destroyed. 65,000 people are evacuated and displaced. Our beautiful state park and natural areas are leveled. The community is reeling. Many people are dealing with the loss of their homes…
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On the nature of time
On this, the day after my 53rd Winter Solstice, I am reflecting more attentively than usual on the nature of time. Our understanding of time, or more specifically, our interpretation of it, is a human construct. Time is in the eye of the beholder, if you will. This was clarified to me through a beautiful…
Read moreMirabai Starr on the liberation of ordinary mysticism and keeping it real.
For you today. Mirabai Starr presents a cairn on our journey to real, human awakening with this reflection in relation to her 2024 book, Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground. All my life, I have been enamored of the God-intoxicated ones. Those rarified souls who slip into ecstatic states and spontaneously utter poetry. The ones…
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On movement
Have you finally figured out what beauty is for? The herald of change is sometimes gentle. A slow shifting of light. A subtle loosening. A soft-but-steadfast pull toward what wants to emerge next. Sometimes, though, change comes fast. A crash. A sudden death. A metaphorical rug pulled from beneath our feet. I can honestly…
Read moreMy story in The New York Times Modern Love: Looking at a Stranger and Seeing Myself
Yesterday, on Valentine’s Day, The New York Times Modern Love column featured my story—Looking at a Stranger and Seeing Myself. It will appear in print this Sunday. There have been many times in my life when I have been presented with wild and unimaginable opportunities—sometimes in the form of challenges, sometimes in the form of…
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