You Complete Me

We never got enough of it.Nobody ever does.Perhaps it is the memoryof a more universal love,unburdened by the shacklesof our own species—expectations, resentments,yearning, always yearning. And so we gather like magnetson a child’s toy, drawn toand captivated by...

What Fire Knows

In winter, we burned what had to be burned.Snow made a bowl of the world,held the edges,kept the woods from incinerating intention. Chris tended the small things—kindling, air, patience.I stood nearby, full of heat,ready to give the firewhat it was born to take.I...

The Leap

Look — the universe is not chaos.It is ordered beneath appearance. The void —a dark, voluminous fullness —listens before it speaks.It pulses with life, with potential,and makes no effort to explain itself. The quantum realm has much to teachthat way. In the silence...

Where Is Love?

Daily writing promptCan you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?View all responses People are fickle.Emotions vary. The universe and nature know nothingof these human fluctuations.The mountains and the stars simply are. Their constancy has...

On Self Deception

We humans hold tightly to beliefs,as if they were vital organs.Perhaps they are. We need to feel safein an increasingly unsafe world. Fair enough. Fundamentalist religions understand this well—how firm boundaries,declared holy,can feel like shelter. How obediencecan...