In my college days, I was in a band that played at small nightclubs. We had a trumpet player, who sometimes would start out on a solo sounding awful. He’d stop and turn to me, and ask, “Hey Man, what key are we in?” I’d tell him and then everything would be beautiful.
In life, some [...]
The universe is so miraculous that there can never be a moment when we don’t have the opportunity to be grateful. Right now I hear a bird singing, I see the sunlight shining through my window. And outside the window I see trees and flowers.
If you want to know what it is like to experience presence with another person, just sit with an infant, face to face, for an extended period of time. There are no words to get in the way. There are no mental concepts. There is just the experience of being with another human being. The [...]
Last night I had a disconcerting dream. I was at a concert by The Who. (I have seen The Who a few times in years past.) They were playing “Won’t Be Fooled Again.” I’m enjoying the performance. And when they get to the end of the song, there is one last line: “Meet the new [...]
I read the news today and saw a picture being painted of a world teetering on the brink of disaster. A never-ending war, a possible new war, global warming, a possible world-wide financial collapse, rising oil prices, and plummeting food supplies.
It has all the ingredients of a perfect storm which could reduce the world [...]
We live in a culture that that conditions our thinking that we don’t have enough. We are told over and over again in media messages and advertising that we need bigger, better, and faster things to be happy. I remember reading the words of poet, Francis Brabazon, who picked up on this theme by writing [...]