“To Norm!”: A Pint Raised to Belonging — and to the Man Who Brought It to Life
There is a peculiar sort of magic in the way a man enters a room and is met not with…
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Through the Glass of Ourselves: A Reflection on Anaïs Nin’s Insight
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” So mused Anaïs Nin, French born,…
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Braving the Thin Spaces
A Reflection on Borrowed Time, Belonging, and Becoming Myself Six years ago, on this date, sitting in my breakfast nook,…
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Coming Home to the Present
And so I have returned. Returned home—but what, or more precisely where, is home?The past two weeks have been a…
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The Humbling Gift of Being Wrong
Reflection Six in a Seven-Part Series on Encountering Transcendence in the Present Moment It is a hard thing, is it…
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The Holy Ache of Longing
Reflection Five in a Seven-Part Series on Encountering Transcendence in the Present Moment Yesterday I visited Ketchikan, Alaska—a town with…
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The Silence Between the Notes
Reflection Four in a Seven-Part Series on Encountering Transcendence in the Present Moment I once heard the great cellist Yo-Yo…
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The Sacrament of Smallness
Reflection Three in a Seven-Part Series on Encountering Transcendence in the Present Moment The beauty of life is, as one…
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Interruptions by Light
Reflection Two in a Seven-Part Series on Encountering Transcendence in the Present Moment After the transcendent moment of standing on…
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Braving the Thin Spaces
Reflection One in a Seven-Part Series on Encountering Transcendence in the Present Moment This morning, I rose to the sun…