Creating a Beautiful Mind, Part 1

Oct 25, 2023 | Essays and Reflections

Poet David Whyte frequently refers to the phenomena of “creating a beautiful mind.” Recently, I’ve begun contemplating this process more intentionally. What exactly does it mean to create a beautiful mind? What is a beautiful mind? And why might it be important to...

Promise

Jul 23, 2023 | Essays and Reflections

Note: Some of my essays are modeled after the work of one of my teachers and inspirations, the poet David Whyte. In his book Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, each chapter is a deep treatise and meditation on a particular...

True North

Jan 1, 2013 | Living as if Our Lives Depend on It

I wrote this poem in December of 2012, a few days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. A friend suggested I write a poem about kindness. This is what emerged. Still timely. Still relevant. Perhaps more than ever. True North The news is not all bleak....

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Nov 12, 2012 | Private

Maybe it’s all about detachment, impermanence.    Whatever you want to call it, the lessons you can learn from your hair, and its absence, definitely fall into the category of “Buddhist Opportunities” (a perspective so graciously offered by my dear friend Joy). I had...