Terry, to keep hoping for life in the midst of letting go is to rob me of the moment I am in.
Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.
Good work is a stay against despair.
Freedom is a word like love or health that teeters on the edge of cliché until you don’t have one or the other and you wish like hell that you did.
Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live...
Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot- the taproot of consciousness. It will survive us.
Every day, I walked. It was not a meditation, but survival, one foot in the front of the other, with my eyes focused down, trying to stay steady.
Beware of the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing. There is evil in the world. You can be tricked.
The snake who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit was not the Devil, but her own instinctive nature saying, Honor your hunger and feed yourself.
By definition, our national parks in all their particularity and peculiarity show us as much about ourselves as the landscapes they honor and protect. They can be seen as holograms of an America born...