Monthly Archives: January 2017

Last night you dreamed that Neti, our pet canary, climbed onto your finger, then hopped up to your shoulder, and the two of you could walk around, even outside, and he stayed close to you, because the friendship had now … Continue reading →

Only lately do I realize I was never a child. Childhood came upon me, just as this age does now. When childhood came, I had no sense of it being any different. It was just that now I was a … Continue reading →

The awakened saints may offer a compassionate suggestion: “See everyone as God.” I appreciate the kind intent, though when I look for God that just may be who’s looking. If we gaze long enough in a mirror, the mind goes … Continue reading →

There are billions of people spread out across the globe at this moment, all enjoying the elegant confusion and true delight of thoroughly not knowing. Some live in cities, some in rural environments, but all naturally celebrate one thing in … Continue reading →

While caressing you to sleep last night I slipped silently into my own dream. Sometimes I remember dreams, mostly I forget — either way it doesn’t seem to matter. Tonight, strands of evidence gathered through my senses during the day … Continue reading →

There’s a Carnival Barker shouting out for our attention. Time after time, we get tricked and drawn in by the latest attraction. It’s utterly incredible how many different features we’ve seen, and yet it seems that we are always ready … Continue reading →

We kept looking at the clocks — the clocks on the walls, the clocks in our cars, the clocks on our wrists — as if those mechanical devices somehow represented all of the time which we had each been apportioned … Continue reading →

The beast rode in masquerading as a child on a monstrous worm with the face of bad news. The fish who liked to splash at the surface stayed close to the bottom and hovered in place. The birds who would … Continue reading →

Everything we thought we knew was wrong. All of our religions, our politics, our histories were false, what we had all been told about our origins was not true, the picture of reality that was programmed into our cerebral cortex … Continue reading →

(How Did This Happen) Somewhere along the way we had lost our appreciation of the principle of cause and effect, we forgot that actions have consequences, and so whatever happened in the world on one day, even if it seemed … Continue reading →