Momento Mori
In the west, we see death as an enemy to be conquered, or at least held at bay as long …
Category Archives: Reflections
Reality Check
“Just when I think life is so good that it can’t get any better … there’s a knock at the …
Tao Te Ching
Stanza 13 Accept disgrace willingly. Accept misfortune as the human condition. What do you mean by “accept disgrace willingly”? Accept …
The Journey Home ebook
I have created a small art book with the pictures I recently painted and paired them with some passages of …
Star of the Sea
That Wondrous Star She is that bright and wondrous star forever raised above the great wide sea of this world, …
Watching the Feeder
Snow has been falling, and the purple finches Attack the feeder, diving like air aces. A half a dozen squirrels …
Black Elk Speaks
Grandfather, Great Spirit, you have been always, and before you no one has been. There is no other one to …
Self-Surrender
Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the …
Rainbow at Night
The train moves through the Guadarrama one night on the way to Madrid. The moon and the fog create high …
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
“But now a strange thing befell me; my despair gave place to an unlooked-for tranquility. … True, I had no …
