Brokenness and trauma are everywhere, on scales both very large and very intimate, and while wounds left untended can allow in what is undesirable, they are also, as Rumi said, the place where the Light enters you. Although we tend to resist and resent that which is fractured, the act of mending allows us to … Continue reading On Brokenness and Grace

How can we find real meaning in an apparently meaningless world, one in which bewildered apes whiz around on a rock in space? How can one find the good without a God? What can we do to save our individual and collective humanity in a too-often inhumane world? I believe the answer to these questions … Continue reading How Humanity is Saved Through Empathy

Have you ever noticed how taking time to truly observe your surroundings, even if it is something as mundane as your own yard, can offer you new perspectives, new insights? Noticing is a gift that takes time to unwrap, but we always benefit from what’s inside. How can we be transformed by this gift? How … Continue reading The Act of Noticing