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Journeys

To a wedding reception in Buffalo, across the endless Atlantic, with LSD to a raki bottle with a note inside

Sunbeams

Despite all appearances, conditions of an exterior nature do not cause wars, or poverty, or disease, or any of the unfortunate circumstances apparent in the world. Your beliefs form your reality. Your thoughts generate practical experience. When these change, conditions will change.

Seth, in Jane Roberts’ The Nature of the Psyche

On My Way From Ohio To Florida To Visit My Parents I Stop At The Days Inn In Ringgold, Georgia And Write This Poem

Landing Light, Carrying Nothing

He struggled heavily between acceptance and terror, until at last the terror went, little by little, like the receding cry of a startled bird.

Miracles

At the airport, in Peru, at a roller-skating rink in Tucson

Sunbeams

Truth is error burned up.

Norman O. Brown

Blessed Ignorance

An Interview With Donald Michael

There is the need to acknowledge to oneself and share with others extremely high levels of uncertainty. By uncertainty I don’t mean probability; I mean the uncertainty that accompanies knowing that you don’t know.

My Grandfather’s Funeral

Open Secret: Versions Of Rumi

The Perils Of Publishing

Finally after a go ’round, she blurted out: “Doug, I’ve been working at the Library of Congress for twelve years, and I’ve never had an experience like this before.” I just wasn’t sure what she was talking about.