What good is a monk?
This morning I miss Father James, gone now coming four years. I visited three times a year for seven years—that’s 21 cups of tea, give or take. Not a long...
Category: Beauty
Give us wine
And wine that maketh glad the heart… Psalm 104 Give us, O Lord, for the politicians who keep their word, the wine of wonderment. Then Lord, give us the wi...
Last night’s dream
I had a dream that I woke up innocent. Not that I had been declared innocent, but that I found myself in a state of innocence. And my body felt light. Like when...
Farewell Kauai—hello Edmonton
Sitting in the dark, in Kauai, listening to the ocean break on the reef just off the Princeville cliff-rise, knowing the thick flocculent green is everywhere in...