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Last weekend in Jonesborough, home of the International Storytelling Festival, we had a Main Street event, complete with artists and musicians and many pumpkins. I was so inspired by the [...]

Fires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, wars, and still… maybe forever… the pandemic. Systemic racism. Political differences turning to vicious outrage. Global scale refugees fleeing  violence, political chaos, and environmental disaster. [...]

Dear Dreamers – There’s a particular shrub whose blossoms scented the air of earliest summer when as a child, I would immerse myself, bodymindandsoul into the hours-long enthrallment of reading. The [...]

Spring... a walk in the park...birds warbling...dazzling sun on the lake... a delightful toddler with his grandpa… joggers and amblers...a cool breeze...delirious green undergrowth filling the woods...a million wildflowers. Here [...]

I love Lent. Note: nobody ever tried to make me give up chocolate. Rather, Lent always appealed to the adventurer in me: it’s less about self-denial and more about making room, saying [...]

I wanted the T shirt that said, “A Story is the shortest distance between two people” but they were out of my color at the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough [...]

A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor was sitting in her front yard when a streak blazed past her.  She had the wits – and even the camera - to [...]

Dear Dreamers – It’s Emergency Preparedness Month, something that weirdly appeals to me. Maybe it comes from raising a pack of Boy Scouts.  Or from the prudent thrill of filling [...]

I doubt many of you noticed, but I never got that June newsletter off the ground.  Not for lack of trying! I had a series of vivid dreams, all set [...]

So much trouble in the world. I trust we're naming these things, praying about them, and meeting each other with as much equanimity as we can muster and as much [...]

Dear Dreamers, You do your inner work: you read the books and listen and learn; you receive insights and glimmers; your mind and soul are slowly trained in paradox and [...]

When I wrote the first draft of this newsletter last week, I named a few things that were out of my control, including the Nashville tornado and closed Metro schools. [...]