Material Teachers

I will matriculate in a school of material teachers that I might know the polysaccharide love of a tree, or the solid mineral experience of iron. If I could rest in the presence of a rock that has done nothing in a thousand years but sit in utter satisfaction on the...

Aphorism #33

I want to outlive the need for accomplishment and let the Being of the world accomplish me. ______________________________________________________________ accomplish: L. complete, finish, fill up, plenty

Hard Questions

As I lay dying, it will not be God’s voice I hear but my own voice asking questions. God will be listening, curious to know if I will ask myself hard questions. More curious still, both of us will wonder what hard questions I will ask God.    ...

An Old Couple Goes in for Counseling

And I, sitting in my car in the parking lot, wonder what went wrong. The heavy history of their years finally catching up? Looking at the unoccupied blue Ford Escape next to me, I imagine them now on a love seat in a counselor’s office, a short length of opposition ...

Denying the Holocaust

I would like to believe the Holocaust never happened and except for the overwhelming weight of evidence, I could. I would like to believe the Holocaust never happened, that Stille Nacht was not sung beneath the chimneys of Auschwitz, that the beech trees of Buchenwald...