Category: Meditations

It could be a dead leaf, clinging on when all the others are gone, but it isn’t. It’s a butterfly, minus a little bit of time.

What in your life looks like an old remnant, but is really the promise of things to come?

Some people spend their lives dreaming of graceful yachts and a life of luxury floating on the waves. Captain Ken has work to do, and the boat to do it with. No frills. Just what the job needs.

What gives you satisfaction in work well done?

With the warmth of spring, the tight knobs of buds are expanding into fireworks, or stars, or fragrant clouds.

What within you is expanding?

“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
―George Saunders

How do you embrace confusion?

The only way to make sure that you get the last laugh is to be willing to laugh at yourself—and to be easily amused.

What funny story do you tell about yourself?