thinking & making
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The Invitation
I came back to watch the glowing magenta lift off, hungover with grief and hungry to feel loved.
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The Roller Coaster
The Roller Coaster is the first song I’ve written in many years, and it’s become one of my favorites to play and sing.
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Not now, but soon
Four nights ago I heard the sweet call of fantastic vision. Hope of a life well-lived and uniquely played …
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The Pilgrimage & The Presence
A poem written as the sun rose over Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago.
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Giving Beyond Myself
The lump—that deep twist in my gut. I am holding too tight, even as I let go. Scooping out my melon of a belly, emptying it of everything, including hunger.
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Everything Is Waiting For You (David Whyte)
Like a fighter pilot who has been hunting down it’s target, circling and chasing, David’s words through the hour were the missile lock, the final poem he read flipped the safety cover off of the firing pin. Locked and loaded, ready to fire. Insight, ready for action.
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Father’s Days
Fatherhood has changed me, and continues to change me. It is the greatest privilege and deepest joy. It has also been heartbreaking and humbling. It is always changing, and I am so thankful for the love that remains constant between these beautiful people and me, and also the love between siblings that takes its own…
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I take it as a sign that I am truly living
I am standing at the top of a hill ready to roll down, and I am at the foot of another hill beginning to climb.
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Differentiation of self
A few years ago, I came to realize that I had a problem with self-differentiation. In my most important relationships I was being driven by a deep-seated fear of rejection and abandonment. My sense of self was WAY too tied up in others and outside forces.