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Trees can teach us so much at this beautiful time—in their giving colour, in their giving letting go. Trees graduate us to so many deeper things. I have been thinking of the trees and things lots.

Any reparations course of love and forgiveness includes asking oneself: How can I have done things better today? How did I use my words today? How did I direct my heart? Where was I kind? Where [...]

On the heels of a Thanksgiving, at least in Canada, and due soon for my neighbours in the north, it is a season to give gratitude to what we are fortunate to have. In doing so, we can better [...]

With gratitude, life becomes more whimsical, less personal, calmer, more richly detailed, and more richly connected as an energy to experience for yourself and to extend to other hearts. In this [...]

To orient ourselves well, the most of us do not breathe well or deeply into the day and as we go about things. ... To center our minds, we have to center our hearts.

BIRD ON A SUNFLOWER: Love is quietly unfolding / in the garden / across the last three days...

The story of the Exodus or of a people from years of bondage is a narrative, to some a myth, that impacts a lot of ways of seeing the world. My family tells the story often, if not at least once [...]

Its important we remember...Kristallnacht, 1938... Every day a tree lives its dying. / Inside its vast shell, its cells transform / in the same moment its leaves are drinking up sun. / It doesn’t [...]

Last year, I had the rare privilege of visiting Hong Kong and Macau. The children were magnificent in beauty and presence. The people I met were gentle, enormously hospitable, and kind. This same [...]

Twenty years ago this last week, January 4 through January 10, 1998, the city of Montreal was hit by a massive ice storm, a true tempest, and all stopped for several days. .... In an unexpected [...]