I CHOOSE TO SERVE LOVE

The universe is big.

FALLING, I TRUST MYSELF

Every step is a risk.

ENJOY THIS DISTANCE

We dance to improvise a bridge, a merging. This is the art of it all, to persist in this always-failing improvisation.

SHORT: OUR ART

Success, however we define it, is a moment.

SPRING! LET THE MUD DO IT'S WORK

Above all, I want to rescue myself from my impatience and my fear and my doubt.

I SEE YOU

...and —just for moment!— we are connected. It takes a moment. Then the tsunami crashes down and I am torn apart, confused, doubting, struggling...

TRUSTING MYSELF

There is magic all around us. We need only become more sensitive to experience it.

WISDOM ALL AROUND

For most of my life animals —mostly dogs, some cats— have helped guide me.

A FORTUNATE SON

Today is my mother's birthday. A good day to wonder about the circumstances of her birth and how they shaped the girl she was, the woman she has become, and how that has shaped me.*

TODAY I AM ENOUGH

Her changes are not only frightening, they are beautiful.

PARADOX REVEALS MY PATH

...there is no certainty, except my commitment to follow the path she shows me.

WRITINGS & RITES & PASSAGES

"She can smell your desperation," my wise friend told me. "She can smell it in your voice. As long as she smells your desperation you are not safe for her."