Train of Thought
Speaking Up: The Struggle to Remain True
Here’s a poem I wrote in October of 2019, before the world became unrecognizable: She Opened Her Mouth and the Roof Fell In She opened her mouth and the roof fell in. The walls collapsed around her and the house she had built with the swe …
Academy Award Actors, We Need to Talk
Vladimir Putin, according to our intelligence agencies, suffers the dilemma of the autocrat. He has surrounded himself with advisors who won’t tell him the truth. They tell him only what he wants to hear, which leads him to blunder. While the stakes ar …
Thou Knowest Not: Flaws in the World of Medicine Revealed
Consider a simple game. It involves two people, Marie and Jose, standing several feet apart. Jose faces Marie and imagines a large tic-tac-toe pattern two feet in front of her face. He reaches his hand into one of the imagined squares and snaps …
Seeing the World with New Eyes
For the whole of 2021, every day after meditation, I read one entry of Mark Nepo’s beautiful and brilliant “The Book of Awakening.” It’s a collection of 365 daily jewels of wisdom that, in his words, speak “about our ongoing need to stay vital a …
The Unseen Element
Is Materialism Killing Us? One of my dear friends left this earth this past week. She was a talented artist, a loyal friend, a fierce advocate. She overcame a traumatic childhood – raised by an at-the-time undiagnosed bi-polar parent – and then struggl …