In 2001, Narayan Helen Liebenson, the founding teacher of Cambridge Insight Meditation Center wrote and illustrated a little book called "Life as Meditation." In 2009, for a holiday gathering (talent show) I performed a song that I wrote based on some of the words in...

What a funny expression, “gone to seed" - does it mean that something is “past its prime,” or “over the hill?" The marsh grass in Ipswich is not quite as vibrantly green as was two weeks ago.  The tall stalks have many slender seeds which soon will turn gold and seem...

I’ve just released a new album of original music recorded in early May with my band “Heart of Hearing.”  The album, called “Kindness,”  has nine of my original songs that I am grateful to be able to share with you here.  It is also available on all the major streaming...

The lilacs in our postage stamp-sized backyard are peaking in the depth of their color and fragrance today.  It seems like spring happened overnight.  The world seemed to turn from black and white to living color so suddenly this year. But of course the plants and...

Since almost the beginning of the pandemic, my sisters and I started a weekly family zoom call - to help cheer up my 92 year-old father, who was feeling the isolation of Covid rather starkly.  We are still doing this.  My beloved dad is now 96.  Yesterday on the call,...

It seems that people from all over the globe had shared a fervent hope that the US would turn the page on a man who hated and divided. So many of us thought that a more inclusive, wider perspective would be clearly seen as the better way forward. So now what?  Sadly,...