Diamond-Cut Life

Yesterday the ten of us took my mother in law Joan’s ashes to Cannon Beach here in Oregon. She had loved the beach, felt deeply alive there, and had requested her ashes be scattered there.
The day was bright but cold, way down in the 30’s with the wind-chill factor, and we huddled close like a [...]

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After being snowed and iced out the last two Sundays in a row, I finally get to go back to church this morning. My connection with God is even more important than usual to me right now because my mother-in-law Joan, in her ninth day at Providence hospital, appears to be dying. Her lungs are [...]

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Later this week I plan to post on election results and also on how to save 40-50% on your electricity bill like my household does.
But this morning is that one single morning of the year in which daylight savings time yields us an extra hour — which we can fill as we choose. Given that [...]

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In the past month I’ve been writing energetically (raving?) about the economic crisis and the presidential race. They matter a lot to me. But I think it’s our deep inner lives, the lives of our souls, that guide us into wisdom, joy and what I term the diamond-cut life.
A few weeks ago I was at [...]

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I suggest that the best thing you could read today would be Nicholas Kristof’s piece in the New York Times on the Dalai Lama and China. All that I will do is explain why I’m suggesting that.
To go five miles up into the big picture, we human beings as a species are in our spiritual [...]

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