If I Could Tell You

My dearest, closest childhood friend lost her battle with cancer last week, but because my husband and I were camping in the mountains, out of cell phone range, I missed the call from her husband and didn't find out until Monday. You can know something is going to happen, like my friend's death, and for …

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Candle in the Wind

A wonderful day meeting new friends and sharing the "separation from the Beloved," which invites this brief excursion into the heart of Rumi: There is a candle in your heart... There is a candle in your heart,  ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, …

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She Blinded Me With Science

I am always looking for better, clearer ways to articulate the modern, and somewhat magical implications surrounding the idea of randomness, especially its specific use in the field of evolutionary biology and how that particular use has persuaded many moderns to embrace a mechanistic view of not only biology but all things human. Randomness is …

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Less than zero

So, what exactly is it that people are doing with their lives? That is the question that carried me through the next few years following the big dream. Feeling that some semblance of sanity had returned it seemed that life was waiting for me to finally cut a path through the heart of my existence. …

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