• composed at work

    Boy, I’ll tell you. My mind is so lighty these days. Flighty. It doesn’t want to settle anywhere. I don’t believe it’s a question of whether a thing feels important, or on a schedule,…

  • afternoon sun,the path is

    I had something of a revelation – vast, giddy side of ‘Aha!” – on the tail end of my Johnson Ranch Trail hike Tuesday afternoon after work. It followed, maybe 150 yards down the…

  • good graces

    I was talking with Gavin Monday afternoon about mountain lions, what is implied as a proximity to and with them on lots of the walks I walk. Hikes I hike. Somehow it came up…

  • my true story

    I don’t know how to talk about what I want to say this morning. I feel it, I’ll just scribble. It has to do with my place in all the rooms of my world…

  • good morning

    And so yesterday morning I was all lost in the summer heat – dizzy dancing morning – and I left early to catch a walk before 90 degrees. On the back of the one-mile…

  • beside the fast lane

    Intimacy as a tangible thing – as a vibrant experience – is wild in my life right now. These days. I suppose it may be greater awareness, slowly encroaching through years of devoted meditation…

  • 25 and six and four

    I was going to ask if you might find a few extra minutes this morning to read a longer, story-telling post . But, nah, I’ve decided to simply leave out all the unimportant words.…

  • a soft parade, five days back

    My Friday Morning Pages were an absolute revelation for me. This clear sense of being fetched by a parade of unexpetced decisions. How have I acted? How have I followed these mini-moments of bliss?…

  • anthro-a-go-go

    The first time I found myself on the ups and downs of the Lemon Loop Trail on San Luis Mountain, switch-backing the easterly lower half, the 101 falling farther below to the right, endless…

  • walden house flashes

    Stepping through the Friday afternoon heat on the Lemon Loop Trail on San Luis Mountain, first time with that particular journey, I came up and round a corner to this: I’m happy to say…