**I've been drafting the lectures (loosely defined) and gathering resources for my upcoming online course on Wildness & Spirituality for...

[I wrote this for the newsletter at The BTS Center where I am now working as the Director of Partnerships & Formation. How cool is that?!...

I believe in fire and flow and muscle and wind. But belief is lonely without practice. My dogs hold me to a practice of elemental...

The pond near where I sit has ice right to the edges. The ice tips up at the lip of the pond (depending on your stance) like a smile or a...

I was born on this day in 1982. Here are 38 things I’ve learned since then: In politics and personality assessments it’s seldom...

It’s autumn, and has been for who’s-to-say how many weeks. Fall first struck me this year at sixty miles per hour. I was driving the long...

There’s a place I’ve been going to the past couple of weeks. It’s a short drive on country roads to get there. There is a pond and trees...

The world feels all tangled up. It feels knotted. Which is different from the world woven together. A woven web of diverse and shimmery...

While walking around the cove last week, I passed a woman and her children sitting near the water on a bank of stones. One child, a boy...

I open the window to a wash of scents from the blooms scattered around my neighborhood. After a night of breathing the indoor air of my...

Last spring I noticed a sprig of an oak growing up among the bushes beneath the window box a few feet from my front door. During the fall...

Birdsong and tulips remind me that earth is still spinning, even when I feel stuck. The ebb and flow of tides remind me that bodies are...

One morning this week I saw a fox trotting through someone’s backyard. I was out for a run. I don’t think the fox saw me at first. We ran...

I celebrate the earth. I heed its aches and its groans. I honor its excellence and its glories. And I celebrate us, for being of the...

It’s mid-April right now. It snowed yesterday in southern Maine. We’re wading chest deep through a global pandemic. And I’m thinking...

There's this old Hebrew story about a man camped out on the bank of a river, on the brink of a struggle. By most accounts he’s been...

Today I feel adrift. I can sense the presence of unmoored grief. So I scan my heart for an anchor of insight, for wisdom that I’ve tried...

Most mornings while the coffee is brewing I empty the dishwasher. The reason I like to empty the dishwasher first thing in the morning is...

We’re in the midst of one of those events that splits history in half. There was before this. And there will be after this. And right now...

I have a muscular intimacy with my bathroom door. What I mean is this: When I close the door I sort of fling it shut behind me as I walk...