What creates empathy?
I don't know. I think it was more of a learned phenomenon for me than something that was a n innate, intuitively felt part of how I moved through life as a child and young... More »
I don't know. I think it was more of a learned phenomenon for me than something that was a n innate, intuitively felt part of how I moved through life as a child and young... More »
Lately I've been playing around with this haiku magnetic poetry kit I got recently. I've been putting the words together kind of instinctively, not terribly quickly but not without a lot of deep thought. it's... More »
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. --Emily Dickinson
Awakening to the truth that, as Byron Katie says, THIS is paradise. It's hard to internalize. It takes practice. Practice. and more practice. and learning how to breathe. but I believe it. I also like... More »
We have to sleep with open eyes; we must dream with our hands. --Octavio Paz
Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing I remember all the different kinds of years. Angry, or brokenhearted, or afraid. I remember feeling like that walking up the mountain along the dirt path to my broken... More »
I found this poem in an old issue of Ploughshares from 1998. Invocation You came to me first as dawn hauled up on ropes of apricot above the blackened wall of white pine. You came... More »
The seeds of all my seasons come together in a soup of something I could once taste but hold now in my mouth like water. They grow up out of themselves into a recipe... More »
Language---how it comes together or doesn't in the hunks of it my students hand me at the start of the year. what I can see in between the bad spelling and invented words and run-on... More »
A self is made, not given. It is a creative and active process of attending a life that must be heard, shaped, seen, said aloud into the world, finally enacted and woven into the lives... More »