Spontaneous Presence

The Economic Context of the US Election

Much is being said about the economy, what is working, what is not and what is mere chimera. Here are

A portal appears. I am bathed in light, warm, soft, welcoming, forgiving, familiar. It fills me with a reminder of

The relationship between the environmental movement and racism is clear. We’ve known this for a long time and it’s become

Colonization happened to us and there is no undoing the past. But colonization is also constantly still happening, through the

These bones are now but drying dates shriveling in the sun. In the morning, they squabble with each other like

Normal consciousness of form, time, body, the world of interaction, is all cracked. That is, there are cracks in these

The tragic and glorious reality brought to us by the pandemic has been a daily encounter with impermanence, the poignant

Each of the 4Rs of Deep Adaptation, Resilience, Restoration, Relinquishing and Reconciliation is a searching journey from the world we

Suggesting spiritual refuge is to be found in ‘not knowing’ rings a familiar bell, though ironically, striking it yields no

In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously noted that pornography is “hard to define, but I know it when