Gearing up for Summer Reading Tour- yes already!

I’m excited about the artwork my friend Peter Menice created for next summer’s library tour. Take a look and please forward to libraries and schools who you think might enjoy a visit from … Read More →

Time and The Rivers Flowing

I’m writing from Alaska where we just finished performing at the Kenai River Watershed Festival this past weekend. I had an encounter at the end of the first day that moved me deeply.… Read More →

How Cold Was It? A Winter’s Tale

It got cold enough here in Albuquerque last night to freeze the pipes, but just warm enough to thaw out some long frozen memories of winters I spent in Alaska.  I arrived in… Read More →

Parable of Stones Into Fruit

My cousin Arthur’s father was a lifelong advocate for peace, justice and civil rights.  This is something he wrote.  I’m writing this from Pomona New York.  Pomona, the Goddess of fruit.  Pomona, where… Read More →

The Listener

With his hands trembling slightly, “The Listener” rang the Tibetan Bells and convened our class this morning. The care he took and the look of awe on his face might have led you… Read More →

The Gift Must Always Move

A few months ago we received an unexpected knock at the door just as we were finishing dinner.  It was our next door neighbors, Saul and Pat with a hot dish of apple… Read More →

I See You! I Am Here!

Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngamantu.  I am who I am – because of who we all are together.  These words from a Zulu  proverb seem to be an apt way to begin the first post… Read More →