My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

Last night as I was meditating before bed, something unusual happened. I am in Denver, Colorado for an art show. My hotel is quite comfor...

“Inshallah.” This is what Amira said the last time I spoke with her and asked if she wanted to go to college. Her father, my friend ...

I was fifteen, playing basketball after school on a springtime afternoon with friends at our local playground. Suddenly, my distraught mo...

Both my parents were avid consumers of information. My mother, a speed reader, read five library books a week for decades. When she wa...

I packed over twenty five paintings and took along a portfolio of hand made prints to make the one day drive from Santa Fe to Oklahoma Ci...

Have you ever heard of the phrase, random act of kindness? According to Wikipedia, the free online dictionary, it describes "a non-p...

The greatest thing you can do to cultivate true wisdom is to practice the consciousness of the world as a dream.  -Paramahansa Yogana...

  Often it happens that after I have spent hours in an art museum, when I come out onto the street, I see life differently—as if everyt...

After almost 600 posts spanning a decade, occasionally I find myself without a topic to write about. I could go to my poems or myriad journ...

"Man's fate is according to his pains." -Robert Herrick, ( English, 24 August 1591 – 15 October 1674 ) Is fasting like w...

“True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self.” — Baha’u’llah I am at the midway point of the Baha...