"I am a barbarously early riser ... I love the  empty, silent, dewy, cobwebby hours." (CS Lewis)

"To struggle used to be to grab with both hands and shake and twist and turn and push and shove and not give in but wrest an answer from it all as Jacob did a blessing. But there is another way to struggle with an issue, a question -- Simply to jump off into the […]

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things." (John Burroughs)

Just read this poem on a Parker Palmer blog ... He writes about how much his work matters; how hard he is still working. But how much it matters, too, that we understand we are not only our work. We are something deeper, something richer, and more lasting than just what we produce. "Even in […]

"Wisdom is the art of knowing what to overlook." (William James)

This is for any of my friends who feel "stuck" right now ... Who are facing decisions that feel big and hard and confusing ... Who don't know which direction to turn, which fork in the road to take ... Don't be afraid. You are in a good place; a place of your "real work." […]