I sometimes wonder how Earth must feel﹣ Cosmic forces pushing and pulling, Seeking greater balance. Her core churning and plates groaning in reply﹣ Am I so different?
Daily Decrease
It can be refreshing to look at life as a sculptor does a block of marble. To think, for example, that you have everything you need already within you. From this perspective you would see that education is more about drawing forth than it is about filling in, that leading is more about inspiring than …
One Definite Move
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal." - Bruce Lee There is a time for discussion and a time for action. Knowing what time it is will save you and those you work, study or live with …
Overcome the World
If there is one thing I've learned in the last three and a half years of daily writing it is that, as Erasmus put it, "the desire to write grows with writing." In fact, I have found this to be true of anything I have undertaken to commune more deeply with nature and to serve …
Horse and Hawk
"Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My riding instructor said something last week which has been hard to shake from my mind: "Unlike other forms of art, riding horses is like sculpting with smoke." He was referring to the fact that …
The Discovery of Purpose
I am sitting here two hours into my first ever severe allergic reaction to yellow jacket stings. Hives all over, facial swelling, chest tightening, itching and intense heat. All that from just a few stings on the hand! Realizing that anxiety never helps in such situations, I am focusing my thoughts on the matter of …
The Compulsory Force
“But I am well aware of the excuse which men, ever ingenious in devising mischief to themselves as well as others, offer in extenuation of their conduct in going to war. They allege that they are compelled to it, that they are dragged against their will to war. I answer them, deal fairly; pull off …
Keep in Mind
"When someone seems to have injured you: But how can I be sure? And in any case, keep in mind: That he's already been tried and convicted - by himself. (Like scratching your own eyes out.) That to expect a bad person not to harm others is like expecting fig trees not to secrete juice, …
A Holy Ambition
“Considering that we are born with this condition, that is, that we can become whatever we choose to become, we need to understand that we must take earnest care about this, so that it will never be said to our disadvantage that we were born to a privileged position but failed to realize it and …
The Summer of my Years
As I approach the summer of my years The hoary voice of winter howls my name. "What was and is, anon shall be at hand— 'Tis time ye relent; good cannot prevail! Men of stature greater than thee have tried And failed. Corrupted men shall forever Herd men less so, who trusting that their gods …
Gregory Hake 