Essays

The Beauty of Desire

I have spent my entire life pursuing this desire for more than what is. –
Thomas Moore The Soul’s Religion

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work…

I believed the story…

I am always moved into an acute sense of extreme sorrow when a friend calls or writes and shares the injustice of this journey.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

As a writer sometimes I surmise it is my task in life to unravel it all…

story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Eliot

We have cluttered our lives with strategies for belonging…

The Path and the Pilgrimage into Elderhood