The Song I Hear

  Wake up and listen. There are sounds you’ve been taught not to hear: Joy is as real as despair. Continue reading →

5 Steps to Healing and Peace

Meditation helps us heal. It’s a healthy, smart thing to do. It eases pain by changing our bodies and by Continue reading →

There is light in the darkness

There is light in the darkness. No matter how much it hurts, no matter what has happened, a star is Continue reading →

Singing Hope

[Part II of “Inner Rooms”] If I were singing the poem of my husband’s life, I’d sing of his laughing Continue reading →

What Is Real?

I was wrong about what is real. The taste of buttered toast on my tongue, the vibration of my viola, Continue reading →

How to get an A in meditation

This essay was published in The Timberjay newspaper on March 5, 2015, in answer to a piece by Ms. O’Hara Continue reading →

“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive…”

The engines fail, the small plane hits the ocean and people are thrown out.  Waves crash over the man’s head. Continue reading →

What’s Left Afterwards? Life as a Sand Mandala

Imagine Leonardo da Vinci’s face after someone splashes acid on the Mona Lisa. Imagine an old man whose two middle-aged Continue reading →