It is 6:45 in the morning. My alarm goes off. I ignore it. It is persistent; it rings again, and again. When my arm finally emerges from under my blanket to silence it, it feels as if my world has been shorn asunder. I am like a baby that has…

Overcoming The Noise Inside “We are paid a ‘forest’ allowance” declared the man standing in front of me in the queue to the lunch buffet. It was the lunch break during a conference that I was attending and I was making conversation with my neighbor in the queue. The man…

Changing Ourselves to Change The World “The only constant is change”.. This is a saying we often hear, and it is true in some ways. Things change around us all the time. Right now, we are living in times of extraordinary change. The familiar is morphing into the new, and…

The Doorstep to One More Day Dawn arrives stealthily. It seeps through the small spaces that my curtains forgot to trap. It is shy at first, tiptoeing around me trying not to step too noisily, but its patience is soon exhausted, and its light spills into every corner of my…

What I would tell my younger self if I could Time contracts and shrinks the older I get. When I was young, an ocean of time extended before me, its horizon was very far off; but as I step into the final chapter in life, time appears to be more…

What happens to the words unspoken Words give life. They translate thoughts and emotions into agreed-upon codes that we decipher in an attempt to get into someone else’s mind. They give voice to ideas that help humanity to move forward. Civilization could not have evolved without words. There are many…

Is there meaning in suffering? People suffer; that’s just what we do. It is part of our humanity and a tax we pay for our existence on this earth. …

Words not only live among us but define us I woke up this morning thinking about the life of words; where words begin and where they end; how they live and when they die. They start life as a thought and, on their journey, they reach an ear or grace…

Nature’s Healing Powers. Almost two months of isolation are beginning to wear me out. Initially, I almost welcomed the chance to stay put and get all those little things that you leave undone, done. I organized my day into neat little packets. I had my day planned out for work…