Category: Dharma Journal

If you want to know how your mind works, just watch pollinators. If you want a regular up-close and personal experience, and you have garden space, plant some flowers that attract bees and the...

Tarn and I recently celebrated our 51st anniversary. Living together for so long has been an incredible journey. We’ve experienced all the ups and downs that a relationship can bestow and have entered that...

I think everyone should be a gardener, if only to tend a few pots in the window sill. Caring for plants is a way of caring for the whole planet. What we learn by...

The beach I am strolling is the last place I remember walking with my sister, Trish; the last place she could walk without support before her declining mobility claimed her legs. That was a...

Sometimes, when I awaken in the morning, I wonder who I will be that day. It seems we are invited to inhabit different roles as if we are actors in a play; we inhabit...

The fox’s den is nestled in a gap between basalt boulders that have broken away from the vertical sides of a ravine that hosts BNSF railroad tracks. I’m surprised she chose this spot so...

My sister Trish has a condition that involves, among other symptoms, a form of dementia that is slowly taking her from us. The decline is unpredictable in the short term, but consistent over time—and...

This afternoon, we are venturing out to hike our favorite loop trail along Paulina Creek. The waterway is named for a powerful chief of the Northern Paiute people who fought against colonization in the...

The word dharma has many meanings. Etymologically, it comes from the Sanskrit dhr–, meaning to hold or to support. It refers to the law that sustains everything; from one’s life to society, and to...

I’m sitting on one of those inexpensive seasonal patio chairs on our back deck, thankful that Tarn’s skillful sewing has provided back and seat pads to make for reasonable comfort. I like to write...