An icy balm for a weary spirit
Ice covers the edges of the creek, a frosty blanket for rocks and logs. Shiny smooth in some places, clear as glass in others. Cracks, energized by the sun into...
Category: Essay
What does the natural world provide for me?
Now that it’s officially Fall, I’m drawn once again to the reds and oranges of leaves preparing to let go of their trees. I can’t just watch f...
Winter, Spring, Summer…Release
Fall is coming! Yesterday, I hiked from Snowbasin to the Ogden Canyon overlook. About a mile in, a breeze rustled the tops of the Aspen trees. Stopping to liste...
Birthday Letter, 2007: I wanted us to be parents
On a second reading, I found, tucked near the end of the first handwritten page, two lines that prickled with the static of a new dilemma. Sixteen years ago, th...
Birthday Letter, 2006: The Possibilities of Stolen Moments
Had I strayed or simply followed the river? I couldn't let myself down, so I let go of trying to force my life into a box to instead float with the current of m...
An Atalantean Effort
Have you ever thought about why we use the phrase “Herculean effort”? Yes, Hercules was supposedly the strongest in the land, but have you heard of ...
Last days in Lisbon
July 24, 2022 Sintra, Portugal A few steps into the cave: darkness. I couldn’t tell the difference between eyes open or closed. Silence pressed upon my ears. I ...
Accidental Person
I’m reading Terry Tempest Williams’ book, Refuge. One sentence pricks my soul. She writes, “Within every checklist there are those birds listed as ‘accidentals,...
Self-love
Self-love This page has the text of a reflection I gave in church (Ogden UCC) on Sunday, May 2, 2021 on the theme of self-love.
These are the history-defining moments that shaped 2020
These are the history-defining moments that shaped 2020 I wrote the following piece about my encounter with the picture of the cemetery in Jakarta shown at the ...