To participate consciously in aligning our stories and institutions with the deeper now unfolding story of integral spirit cosmology is, I believe, the great calling of our time.
Category: Essays/Poetry
The Living Universe Story, Part Three
The stories we tell our children today will shape the institutions they participate in creating and inherit tomorrow…
The Living Universe Story, Part Two
Thomas Berry captured this when he wrote that “the human is the universe reflecting on itself…”
The Living Universe Story, Part One
These ancient stories did not deny conflict or suffering. They acknowledged the human capacity for violence and excess…
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Fifteen
“Hell, if it wasn’t for music, I wouldn’t have no friends at all…”
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Fourteen
She was an accomplished singer/songwriter from Texas who played keyboards. I had heard the name, Dee Moeller, in Dallas…
BORDERLANDS HEALTH: When Silence Ends, What Comes Next?
Chairs will be set close enough for people to see one another, but with space for those who need it….
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Thirteen
I had set about to create an album of original songs about my adventures in Panama…
45 DEGREES NORTH: A Few Tips About Rural Restaurants
Not every meal comes with a floor show like Porky put on. But every place has its quirks…
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Twelve
The band consisted of Jimmy Russell the ‘Love Muscle,’ lead vocals, keys and flute; the amazing Terry Diers on guitar and vocals…
ESSAY: ‘Suddenly Amish’ Takes Rural Reality TV to the Extreme
Notably, the Amish reality TV sub-genre inherently targets a community that can’t fight back…
Colorado Convenes Its Constitutional Convention, March 13, 1876
“We have endeavored to take a middle ground, believing it to be more safe, and in the end that it will give more general satisfaction…”
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Eleven
And now… I was with the Family Lotus on the road to Taos. What a delightful coincidence…
INTERVIEW: The Decline of Religious Participation in America
“I didn’t just see it in the spreadsheet, I saw from the pulpit on Sunday for 18 years…”
Colorado Constitutional Debates in 1876 Foreshadowed Populist Backlash Against Railroads
“The effects of evils to which we have briefly adverted are already apparent — in stagnation of business, the difficulty of collection, the collapse of private enterprises…”
ESSAY: A Rural Calling
“We recognized that, actually, our lives are richer for working with people whom we had previously written off…”
THE DAILY YONDER: Mud Season
In past years, I actually looked forward to mud season because it brought friends out of hibernation and into the woods…
ESSAY: Bad Bunny, at Halftime
Maybe nothing flipped overnight. Maybe hardened partisans didn’t suddenly renounce their politics. What happened was subtler — and more powerful…
Ancient Sky, Ancient Wisdom
The sky loomed large for early Native Americans, and its cyclical changes were cause for connection, awe, and ceremony…
