• What a Difference a Year Makes

    Hite Marina: See Any Boats?

    What you see above is last year. It’s a picture of Lake Powell in 2022, during the worst drought we’ve ever had, year over year.

    What you see below is this year, just a few days ago, as a matter of fact. It’s upriver from Lake Powell, along a different […]

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  • The Separate Skin

    We wonder why we’re alone, when it’s each of us who make the choice to be alone. When we choose to walk in separate skins, we are alone.

    It’s true that there is a meaning in our lives here, and that the love which resides within each of us seems to have a need for us. […]

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  • The Infinite Voyage

    You to begin to focus on where you’re going. But where you’re going is toward fuller awareness of where you already are. In a sense, it’s where you’ve already been. It’s told that we need to focus on the journey, and not the destination. Maybe that’s because the journey is an infinite one within ourselves.

    I […]

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  • Loving the Ugly

    Abandoned church, Chicago

    It’s been said that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Sounds nice, but what does it actually mean? To me, it represents the central place of imperfection in all spiritual practice. It moves us to love the imperfect, because nothing on earth was made with straight lines. If we […]

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  • The Dirt – Excerpt

    I was due at his trailer to go over the rest of his testimony. Hadn’t slept in nights. Not real sleep. Just veering into the vacant rooms of dreams without inhabiting them, or snagging a voice that called my name. Udenni’s voice. Seeing her face. Feeding my tears into the Dolores, the River of Sorrows. […]

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