"Unfulfilled desires prove the existence of heaven," thundered the campus Lutheran pastor at the beginning of a sermon decades ago. Out of all the sermons I heard during the first half of my life, this is the only sentence that…
Years ago I worked in an office where my desk was temporarily situated in an area with no windows. All day I sat under fluorescent lights and felt I was slowly losing my mind. Actually, there was a window nearby,…
Two of the many things that correlate with the Capricorn archetype are the winter solstice and death. Which is why I found myself visiting a rural burying ground this morning at sunrise in 9 degree weather. I post a monthly…
My all-time favorite documentary is Buck, which features renowned horseman Buck Brannaman. People bring their difficult horses to him at clinics, but what he really is doing is "helping horses with people problems." He describes a horse as "a mirror…
With all the concerns these days about AI replacing human creativity and wisdom, let's take a moment to consider how there is at least one thing it can never replace: your inner "resident therapist." This is how Naomi Quenk describes…