Travel lightly, without detour or urgency, deeply within, to the place of no time. Feel the humble kindness of purpose, graced by the darkened veil leading to life’s brilliance.
Slipping
Life slips by in thunderous processions of perceived meaning, stifling truth in cloaks of belief and suffering. Pain is mandatory, happiness a chimera, and peace an overlooked potentiality. Heaven or hell is your choice when living in the now.
Sensing Humor
The universe occasionally finds a need to test my sense of humor, and, for some reason, it chooses the peculiar locale of the Haggen parking lot for these trials. This is the third time the focus of my writing is…
The One Before You
I went on a two-mile hike today. Painful from start to finish, it was the hardest hike of my life. It was also my most satisfying. Shrouded from the world by the branches of giant Cedars, it was the hike…
The Angel you know
A friend died two days ago after several years of suffering. I met James Fetty after he was admitted to the local hospital for a quickly spreading MERSA-like leg infection. The prognosis was grim – the infection had started in…
Good for the soul.
Yesterday morning, Laurie asked me if I wanted to hike up Goose Rock. As it had been two and a half hours since my first dose of Crexont (about 550 mg Levadopa, totaling 2600 to 2700 mg Levadopa daily), I…
Memorial Day 2025
I am happy to report that I finished the 3rd annual Memorial Day, “Hike” (from Rosario Beach dock to Bowman Bay and out to Lighthouse Point and back, 3.3 miles), “Swim” (from the dock to the beach), “and Swig” (a…
In mourning
The mourning doves are louder than during previous springs, their cooing in search of a mate replacing the cackle-screech of the Starlings of years gone by. We have lived in the same house for 34 years, the Starlings, a calming…
Discernment
Recently, I learned of two tragedies that made me consider life from a different perspective. One involved a man who faced an impossible decision after a fall, a result of a vertigo-induced condition caused by successful chemotherapy. The other tragedy…
Life’s Masterpiece
Life’s only certainty might be that spiritual growth is not linear. Instead, it revisits the past like an infinity symbol on its side, exposing long regression periods. I had been floundering somewhere in the far circle of infinity’s ignorance for…