These short reflections and insights range in length from twitter-length to short essays. They’re free, so what’ve you got to lose but a few moments?
Moki Dugway
Do you know what a dugway is? I didn’t either, until I happened upon one. The photo above is taken from an outcrop along Cedar Mesa in southern Utah. It shows a long and winding road excavated by U miners in the second uranium boom during the Cold war. Driving up or […]
I’d been to Powell Plateau before. A couple years back in July. This time I went at the end of September, before they closed out the North Rim for the tourists. As a backpacker, I was a step above the tourists. So I thought.
There’s no source of water so you have to haul in your […]
Hoodoos near Chesler Park, Canyonlands
If you take anything and apply enough pressure, it changes into something else. Plants become peat or coal or oil. Mud, silt and sand becomes rock. The earth applies heat and the composition changes. Two components are poured into the subterranean kiln, melt in the crucible and become one. […]
Sitting in my idling SUV at the Walgreens drive-thru, waiting for my script to fill, gazing at the extra-planetary cliffs of Mesa Verde, its fist-like folds in shadow between the meandering promontories. The air, in the 60’s. Chalk blue sky. The Carrizo and Lukachukai Mountains in the arid, Arizona distance, belonging to another tribe.
I think […]
Abandoned Church, Chicago
I grew up in a religion which shall remain nameless, since I don’t want to argue over religion or attack any faith. Once those religious precepts were installed onto my hard drive (probably by age 8), they became difficult to wipe no matter how hard I tried in later years.
Before I […]
In this world, founded originally on the idea of fear, which lead to the thought of blame to cover up the fear, a near endless stream of identical thoughts, dreamt by all of us, prevails to cripple our recollection of love, which remains our true nature. These thoughts, which seem all to be different, are […]
The Infinite Beneficence of That Which Is
Comes and touches me through the eyes of a child,
Or through the diffused brilliance of a sun set through rain.
And I,
Ecstatic
Overwhelmed
Panicky
Unworthy
Unable to give myself back to It,
Willing to accept It on behalf of humanity
But none for myself,
Distract myself from It
Try to be equal to It to alleviate my discomfort […]
Everything we think, say and do says something about us, doesn’t it? There’s nothing unintentional about any of our actions, words or choices. To state otherwise admits to the possibility of randomness, and if the universe or any aspect of it was random, there could be no conscious intention, and therefore no reason to anything. […]
To be proactive isn’t to choose against something that I don’t want. It’s to choose for something that could be. When I choose, it’s important for me to keep a few things in mind—
On I-70 driving into the sunset, just west of Kansas City, listening to the serene and simple music of Tim Story, I knew that peace was mine. Right then and there. There were no special merits I needed to attain to receive it, no work to be done to “get” it. I could have it […]