A quest, a question, a challenge. Will I get it done or not? Turns out I'm going to Hawaii next week with my daughter because she got an unexpected offer from a high school friend to house sit–& suddenly I…

This is a to-do list in my quest to accomplish ordinary life tasks & it'll be interesting to see how far I get especially when I reflect that doing something about even one request brightens my spirits & further motivates…

I beg to differ. Life is life. We might want and want and want some result, the quest. But we have so little control over the result of the questing. And thus, if I think life is a quest and…

Now this one made me laugh out loud: “Life is a quest”…….and I immediately added an “ion” to that final “t”…..and my laughter settled into a more solid knowing place….a place of sad, agonized yet somehow comforting place within me.…

The story of the Minotaur like a labyrinth itself is an endless well. The version most commonly known today speaks of King Minos failing to sacrifice a gift from Poseidon, a white bull, as promised. Poseidon curses him so that…

A hundred dollar bill lay on the carpet floor of a yellow cab, & I was the only one who saw it. I bent to pick it up & put it in my pocket. At home, I took it out--it…

Underneath the visible are storylines, a dream we share. That dream is made up of stories. Most of those stories are unconscious. The meaning that lies underneath the words we use is mostly unknown. The words we use like spells…

I have seen peace, it was there in the cardboard boxes in the lobby of The Friend's School at 16th Street & Valencia. I was helping a friend drop off food supplies,-- rice, barley, lentils, spaghetti, tomato sauce, coffee, tea,…

each life, a thought that pops up in the Vast Mind of Creation, like a seedling, or a word,-- a world of seeds & words

It used to rain a lot more than it does now. Rain poured & poured from the heavens like Niagra Falls. Not wanting to miss anything, I used to run out into the rain to walk along Fort Point, under…