Poems
Have We Lost the Desire to Listen?
It appears there is a lapsed instinct for interiority…For turning inward..
Essays
Faithful Art Making ~ Doubt as the Best Question
When artists are afraid to offer up their doubt in their art, its presence and resonance cease to announce its appearance.
Poems
Curiosity’s Manifesto
Curiosity, a naturally meddlesome impulse, taps me on the shoulder very lightly
Essays
Love Behind the Doors
I am always moved into an acute sense of extreme sorrow when a friend calls or writes and shares the injustice of this journey.
Essays
The Beauty of Remembering ~ Recovering the Gifts of Living
Remembering is harkening backwards, an attempt to in part, stop the forgetting. Art making is not merely a nostalgic gaze at the past but a creative reply to the impulse of memory.
Essays
When the True Self Comes Home
We all long to be known. We hunger for contact with our deep inner beauty.
Essays
The Wisdom of No Escape ~ When Chaos is Good News
time, if indeed there is an actual time, when our childhood innocence is lost
Essays
The Beauty of the Ordinary ~ The Translucent Skin of Impermanence
We were designed to love impermanent things.