Thoughts From My Journal – Being Elder
It feels paradoxical: on the one hand, age brings physical diminishment; I’m slower, weaker, less resilient, so perhaps the capacity to manage gripes is concurrently reduced and maybe we elders become more thin-skinned with age so our resistance to annoyance is lower...
Thoughts From My Journal – Oneness in Nature
When I see or hear of generosity and self-sacrifice and compassion offered, I am moved and reminded of some people’s remaining readiness to care. I will never be so reclusive as not to recognize the ultimate goodness of these acts. I continue—and assume I always will...
Thoughts From My Journal – Richard Nelson Died
Early 2021… I learned today that Richard Nelson died a year ago. He was an anthropologist, 77 years old, who spent the latter part of his life in Alaska, primarily the Sitka area; I first encountered him through one of his early books, Make Prayers to the Raven,...
Thoughts From My Journal – A Higher Good
Speaking of the highest good, what is my candidate for the honor? For me it has been the experience of unity, the knowing that comes from feeling one with Nature and Universe, all being, all beings. Out of that as it became more conscious, I saw how ethics flow from...
