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  • A Question of Scale

    “You live at the boundary between the past and the future, surfing on the accumulated experience of a billion billion sentient beings.” You are somewhere in this universe. This should be obvious, but it cannot be overemphasized. You are somewhere. What is more, you are some size, and you will live for some period of…

  • Violence Diminishes Us

    This is written on the wall of my office. “Violence diminishes us.” It is a hammer where a scalpel is required. Or a suture. Or a feather. It is almost never what is called for. There is a pull to violence in us. Our egos offer this command on a regular basis: “This world is…

  • Reasoning towards peace

    If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors,…

  • Just… practice.

    A couple of years ago, in a moment of frustration/inspiration, I grabbed a permanent marker and wrote on the wall in my sunroom. “Life is Practice,” I reminded myself. I was in the middle of parenting, writing, partnering, thinking about the meaning of it all, and trying to make time for practice in the midst…