The Long Road

Hear Dan read this post. Some­one I knew ran off this road return­ing home late one night. He had been drink­ing and died in the acci­dent that every­one knew was­n’t one. I heard about this a cou­ple months ago just after it hap­pened. I did­n’t know him that well, but well enough to be real­ly… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Long Road

The River Knows Everything

Hear Dan read this post. One of the most pow­er­ful pas­sages in Her­mann Hes­se’s clas­sic spir­i­tu­al tale, Sid­dhartha, goes like this: I am only a fer­ry­man and it is my task to take peo­ple across and to all of them my riv­er has been noth­ing but a hin­drance on their jour­ney. They have trav­eled for mon­ey and busi­ness, to wed­dings and on pil­grim­ages;… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Riv­er Knows Everything

Working the Edge

Hear Dan read this post. for Jane It is an ancient anal­o­gy: con­scious­ness is to uncon­scious­ness as land is to the sea. At the edge, there is a beach where stones are washed smooth and round, and the drift­wood lies heaped and bat­tered from the storms. A place of immense beau­ty, it is the con­ti­nen­t’s… Con­tin­ue read­ing Work­ing the Edge