On Decision-Making

On Decision-Making

A decision is a bucket you dip into the creative Flow of the universe, which is the raw material from which all forms are made. The Flow takes the shape and form of the bucket you dip into it. The Flow also shapes and reshapes the bucket, bringing its essential nature...
Poetry Alchemy

Poetry Alchemy

Poems are living beings. They enter through your skin and eyes and ears; they swim in through your dreams. They burn through the fog of everydayness to reveal life’s brilliance hiding in plain sight. They transform your biology, your history, the rhythms of your...
What Matters Most To You Now?

What Matters Most To You Now?

It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon; the sky outside my study window is a pale, luminous blue undulant with sunlit clouds. Grey-shingled slant of roof; lift and droop of linden branches at play in a July breeze. Pollen sifts golden to the ground. My heart widens into the...
In Praise of Writers & Writing

In Praise of Writers & Writing

Today, I’m thinking about this craft of writing that has claimed me since I was two years old and first learned to connect words on the page to the words in my mouth to the words in my ears. Today, I’m feeling into my deep love for writers, and for the community and...