A poem — I saw just now again the garden at dusk, beyond the open glass doors. I saw the white narcissus and star lilies in the moonlight, luminous and perfect. I was supposed to be somewhere else, but I stayed, remembering. For I had been here before and forgotten how everything mattered. How the radiance…

This is a hard one. But Eleanor Roosevelt knew what she was talking about. The former First Lady ranked in the top nine most widely admired people of the twentieth century. Her legacy, one among many, was to tell us “The choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” Yet…

I chose, I have chosen — Tenoran was the third planet. For some, this was simply a signpost. For me, it signaled far more. “What’s possessed you, Sela, huh?” Jaras swiveled around on his chair to face me. “What difference does it make — we keep circling an abandoned planet! Why? You’ve got Harmas waiting for…

“To understand the limitation of things, desire them.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Of late, I have been on a quest to achieve a long-awaited goal I really, really want. Yet I know the word “want” is exactly the word that prevents movement forward every time it shows up…

I found if I read one of the articles by Cheri Elkin, I had to read another straightaway, and another. It was like being guided on a path with fireflies dancing ahead of me. Her voice speaks of everyday things, an echo of life as we know it, and then…

All of them from the 1950s, all of them powerful messages — It is a riveting film. Taken beyond the pulp fiction posters and melodramatic trailers, not only is the message a warning against the apocalypse, but it describes our world today so exactly — as if indeed we are held in its thrall. The most famous words in the film are…

You get what you focus on…for ill or good… — You are the decider. No one else. Are you present now, aware of how you are living your life, or are you spending your emotional time in an elusive future? If you are not present for your life in every moment, you are sacrificing your personal power, your creative imagination…

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson — I find I am nearly bereft of words today. Words of my own, that is. The societal revenge against women shown by the Supreme Court ruling reduces the power of women symbolically and practically to that of the chattels, a role we were assigned by force in centuries past. There…

How do you know? — I have a tale yet to be written…no idea if it is meant to be a short story or a novel. All I have — and have had for several months now — are words in italics, arriving from out of the blue, centered under the chapter title, with a…