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“The dead are not distant or absent. They are alongside us. When we lose someone to death, we lose their physical image and presence, they slip out of visible form into invisible presence. This alteration of form is the reason we cannot see the dead. But because we cannot see them does not mean that…

“FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses, as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn. A friend knows our…

 “I really nap a lot.  Usually I get sleepy right after lunch, pop down on the sofa and doze off.  Thirty minutes later I come wide awake.  As soon as I was sup, my body isn’t sluggish and my mind is totally clear.” – Haruki Murakami There’s a chapter dedicated to “Nap” in the book…

“How did we go from being a part of this greater earthbody to feeling apart from her? And how might we practice belonging ourselves back to the ecosystem? Our overemphasis on rationalism has sent the feeling life into atrophy, but it is the feeling capacity which connects us to empathy. This empathy is essential to…

“When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor…

“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.” – Andy Goldsworthy In 2009, my good friend, Debora, asked me if I would be up for going camping in the woods with…

Wild Geese “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world…

“Pathmaker, your footsteps are the path and nothing more; Pathmaker, there is no path, you make the path by walking.” ~ Antonio Machado (1875-1939), Great poet of the Spanish Civil War I woke up this morning to curiosity, inspired by my latest observations as I interact with myself and with others. These relational moments can…