Grief can turn into poison. “We grieve the loves we’ve lost. We grieve our abilities vanishing through age. We grieve our children leaving home. We grieve the paths we didn’t […]

She slipped her hand in mine On my left I looked down To innocence That face Sun-filled Smiling up at me I died to be living Couldn’t resist but bend, […]

Words to ease the soul as we spin towards whatever change is happening to us on the planet. “You went to a strange land searching For a truth you felt […]

Crowing comes from the rooster Morning comes from God. I wish I said that. But I didn’t. That’s Shams Tabriz’s astuteness. I recently discovered Rumi—that bigness brought to me by […]

Weird thought. Do you realize that we are walking atop the bones of every person who ever lived on earth? Taking the thought further, if you believe in reincarnation, this […]

Can you feel the Shift? Nothing making sense? That’s how it’s been for me, for a long time now. All I know anymore is what I DON’T know. With my […]

Right between the vagina. A while ago, I had to drive from New York to New Jersey to get blood drawn. It was only 70 miles, but considering the traffic, […]

My little Nico. Every day, all winter long, lost in my head during my four-mile walk, from pretty far away, something would nudge me, I’d look up, and there Nico […]

“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” I saw you. Sitting on the train. In joyous rapture. “No!” Are you fucking kidding […]

I took acid once. It was the summer I turned 15—on the eve of my going away party—thrown by my Ceil Place friends, my “real” family. My family of origin […]