I was reading Ken Wilber’s Integral Meditation this morning, and a sentence jumped out at me. “To a large degree, we can make the future that is given to us.” That being […]
It’s All Story
Working on my Nano story this morning, actually struggling with the words like many others it seems, and it occurs to me that it’s all story. Life, that is. Life is just […]
Purpose?
Nano has really taken a back seat this year. This last week watching the election and the drama associated with that coupled with the pandemic surge striking even closer in our family, […]
Speak the Truth
While walking yesterday, I was listening to the new biography of Jimmy Carter, His Very Best, by Jonathan Alter. In a section about the energy crisis of the 70’s, Alter relates Carter’s […]
Battling the inner critic
I’m writing this morning – not my Nano novel, yet, but still putting words on the page, and that’s what’s important. It’s amazing to me when I have a task, a goal […]
What Goes Around Comes Around
Well, it’s finally here – election day. I don’t kid myself into believing by tonight we’ll know who our next president is. That’s just not going to happen. And yet this morning […]
Trump – “Worst Criminal?”
Nano has begun and today I will devote my writing energies to my novel. But first I think I must respond to a recent interview in The New Yorker with Noam Chomsky, […]
A Profound Sadness – Money as King
As the final day of the election approaches, there is an increasing barrage of requests for financial support. “The opponents are raising more money than we are. We need to keep up. […]
Gratitude for obstacles
“We don’t grow in spite of the obstacles in our lives, we grow from them.” Ralph De La Rosa Thoughts of Donald Trump invade my mind as I do my morning reading, […]
To Infinity and beyond . . .
This election year has taken me to places I never thought possible. A dedicated political cynic in the past has been replaced by a thoughtful, concerned, rational supporter of our democratic system […]