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Buoys

Bobbing freely above the drowning,briny sea,they move with the breeze yet remain tethered to solid ground beneath darkly mysterious still waters. I look into those eyes,such deeply rooted guides which flow with every mood yet never become lost by my winding path.

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Seasonal Poems to Warm the Soul

Happy Winter Solstice! I may not be religious in the traditional sense,but I understand and cherish the importance of the “spirit of the season”.

As many of you know,Jesus wasn’t born in December,but his birthday was placed near the pagan Roman holiday of Saturnalia by Constantine to encourage pagans to join the [...]

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Integral Spirituality,Humanist Spirituality

Another New Age trend? Well,perhaps a New,new age,looking beyond crystals and incense. Why should we think about these ideas?

All peoples from around the world maintain some kind of spiritual practice. It adds meaning and wholeness to their lives. I am included in that bunch. When I started this blog is was [...]

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Closing the Gap Between Thoughts and Life

There is often a gap between thoughts and actions,between ideas and the plot of living. Life is a river. If you sit there thinking about it,pondering it,worrying about it all the time,then you are on the bank watching life go by.

I’m not talking about thinking before making a decision. Big [...]

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The Edge

Standing at the edge of the cliff We notice there are two possibilities. One,we can remain,safe,where we are. Or we can jump into an unknown future.

On one hand,we are freed by the possibility of not jumping. But imagining the flight without experiencing it is a also a kind of [...]

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