I feel so proud tonight, May 6th, 2008, to have had the opportunity, the honor, the privilege of voting for Barack Obama today in North Carolina's Democratic Primary. I feel so proud that this rare leader, such as I have never seen in my lifetime, has handily swept a victory in my home state. I feel so proud, so proud tonight, of my state, North Carolina, for so unexpectedly bringing its tarnished (by decades of Jesse Helms and other Republican victories) political power to bear in one of t...
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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 8:11 PM
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At our Hoop Path Retreat Fire last summer, some of you will remember that for my Fire offering I burned a huge stack of checks. These were the checks my father had signed over the last six months of his life, when an aggressive tumor was rapidly overtaking his brain. Steadily his signature disintegrated until it became an unrecognizable, childlike scribble. Finally his signature was replaced by that of his executor, an old family friend.
Tue, February 26, 2008 - 1:26 PM
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Finding the checks when I cleaned out his house... read more
Last night's hoop practice was particularly rich. Having had a sore shoulder for much of the week, and a bizarre episode of overcaffeination on Thursday, I vividly felt the absence of discomfort in my body. Stretching out before practice, I reflected on the simple relief that quiet, relaxed, mind-present stretching can bring, really noticing the difference that came out of allowing my full attention to rest in my physical being. Having practiced an intense form of yoga for eight years, I g...
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Sat, February 2, 2008 - 9:56 AM
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---for my beloved Vincent
Thu, January 17, 2008 - 7:07 PM
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Down at the creek trail we run together, as twilight makes shapes in the trees. The next moment, for him, always holds promise-- he bounds ahead, unafraid. With my voice I could stop him fifty yards away-- and his black, bat- eared head, turn, waiting for my yes. And if a stranger, if a stranger were to enter our home, he would stand between me and whatever might happen. I know this. More deeply than I have ever trusted another p... read more
Over the last few weeks, my consciousness has been pricked again by the flat-out realness and even perhaps the necessity--certainly the inescapability--of the shadow side of life, the heavier and darker side that lives with or without our acknowledgment.
Sun, December 23, 2007 - 1:19 PM
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In youth, I lionized tragic figures like Sylvia Plath (from whose poem "Poppies in October" comes the title of this blog)--whose explorations of loss magnetized me. I was drawn to and identified with emotions like nostalgia, sadness, wi... read more
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