Walking is one of my favorite metaphors and “Who are you walking with?” is one of my favorite questions. For years you could find me most Thursday’s at noon at a BBQ place with some men I walk with. They are two of my closest friends. One week Dave brought a notebook from a couple […]
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I’m fascinated by the relationships; where they form, what happens in them, and how they shape us. In March of 2004, a mystic, a skeptic, and a practitioner walked into a canyon. That’s not the beginning to a bad joke. On the contrary, it is the beginning of a real life journey that would effect […]
Read moreAdvent’s Invitation
I wrote this poem in 2006 and I post it each year at the beginning of Advent…mostly for myself. By this time in the year my mind is often noisy. I have become impatient and entitled. I have been swept up into the pace of Christmas and it’s trappings. So read ahead if you’d […]
Read moreCan I be honest?
Rarely am I a brave writer. I hedge my bets and worry about what people think. I shy away from pulling back the curtain even though I know I overestimate my scope of influence. While I type, edit, delete, retype, delete, repeat, a litany of what-if’s flash through my mind, the most haunting being, […]
Read moreTourist vs Pilgrim
Yesterday I posted a letter from an Arab student on Facebook. It was his response to a note I wrote a number of years ago and hid in a place called the Abandon Meander in the Paria Canyon. Several guides know where it is and read it to their trail mates when they pass […]
Read moreThe Ancient Roots of the Lord’s Supper
Today at sundown the Jewish people will begin to celebrate Passover. As you probably know, Passover comemorates God’s intervention and their release from slavery in Egypt. According to Exodus 12, the tenth plague was the most horrific. The eldest child in every family would die unless a lamb was killed and its blood was brushed […]
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