I am a creature who thrives in the darkness. I love the stars, the northern lights, and the calm quiet that comes with nightfall. I find solace in the darkness—safety. Growing up in the Midwest, I spent summers on a blanket at dusk watching the fireflies light up the thick woods that bordered the hayfields … Continue reading Winter solstice 2020: A reflection
I’ve been on retreat, sitting with that strange and wonderful stillness. Before I return, body and soul, to the world, I'd like to know whether and how you do a retreat. Please let me know. Mine is the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos. This is my fourth year there. Over time the following routine … Continue reading Away to A Quiet Place
January. This is the time of year when I leave Anchorage for Northern California and an annual retreat. I’ll be back in touch toward the end of the month. Going inside—going interior—I’m leaving a distressed world. There’s so much of which We/I/You don’t have control. I’m rattled - worried. As I take my hand from … Continue reading Good Vision (It Will All Be Okay)
Winter solstice, December 21st, Anchorage, Alaska. Sunrise: 10: 15 am. Total daylight: five hours, 28 minutes. Finally. December arrives. And with it, permission to go inside, to shut the door. Settle into the interior rooms, the hidden places of the self. Let your eyes adjust and become accustomed to darkness. See—begin to see—that which you … Continue reading What Emerges
Saturday morning, in Anchorage, Alaska, I launched The Vision Workshop, the first of the From Bone to Sky offerings. The Vision Workshop helps you do the hard work of leveraging your suffering toward a life worth living. The workshop is experiential. You contact your inner house, straighten it, get it in order. You use space, … Continue reading What You Believe In
