in honor of Mary Brady Yesterday, my friend Mary died. She was a beautiful person whose life was shaped by tragedies of death and loss.  Death is that brutal and […]

Virginia Malloy and I went to Sacred Heart Church in Camden, New Jersey to hear Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit peace activist and long-time friend of Michael Doyle.   During his talk […]

Every time I ever said I want to die –I meant I am willing to do anything to live. Even leave this world forever. Andrea Gibson

On the day you died, you passed into a realm we cannot know. Though religion has fooled many into believing ‘it is this’ or ‘it is that,’ the best we […]

What are Your Favorite Songs?

Everyone should have a huckleberry friend somewhere in the journey.It is a friendship that will shower your life with magic for as long as it lasts.You will forever remember your […]

“All bread is made of wood,cow dung, packed brown moss,the bodies of dead animals, the teethand backbones, what is leftafter the ravens. This dirtflows through the stems into the grain,into […]

I once read, “Synchronicity happens when we align with the flow of the universe rather than insisting the universe flow our way.”  I have experienced what I identify as synchronicity […]

Paul Tillich described God as the ground of being. I no longer think of God as “up there” somewhere. I think of God as “down here,” which I think — […]