Last week I wrote and posted a poem inspired by a friend’s sermon. I thought it might be fun or at least interesting to record a video of the poem being read as a spoken word piece. My initial intention was just to post the video on my social media …
AbideAbide in the dark my darling, abide.For just a while longer now, abide.Though it is bleakI beg of you, peace, be still, abideThere is a beauty that will beckon you to reach,But for now you must abide.Soon you will breach the blackness and you will begin to blossom,But only if …
In the previous podcast episode I talked about a book I had been sent to review called Learning to Be by Juanita Campbell Rasmus. I’m still reading my way through the book, and struggling to do so honestly. But, I wanted to share a few more thoughts that have occurred to me during the …
I’ve been working on a review for a book called Learning to Be. I’ve posted a posted a blog and a podcast with some of my initial thoughts and impressions, as well as some of my reservations around doing book reviews as a whole. I don’t take a traditional or …
I’ve made two previous attempts at a book review. I think I faltered in both attempts because I’m not sure that I ever offered a real “review” of either book. I shared some thoughts. I pointed out a few things I liked about each of the books, and highlighted some …
I use a lot of quotes in my writing. Some of you are utterly unsurprised bythat admission. I can actually picture some of you feigning shock and gasping in sarcastic disbelief at this very moment, and that’s fair. I don’t blame you. Honestly, I caught myself in that very act …
I spend most of my time in my head. I guess we all do really. In general, we’re blissfully unaware that our existential status is little more than “brain in a box”. But, there’s simply no way around admitting that the disconcertingly gray mass of squishy flesh situated in the …
The kind of humans we want to be depends on the stories we tell and how we tell them – Karen Rinaldo I’ve long been in cahoots with the Unusual Buddha. Jim Martin was the one who encouraged me to start a podcast, and he was also the very first …
The waiting hours speak. They always speak, but they speak slowly and harder than any other because they have something to say, something to teach, something to impart. It just takes a long time to say it. And so we wait… If you’d like to read the transcript of this …
There is no “last word”. Everything is open-ended. There is always something that remains for another “And one more thing”
