“Santa Cruz Shore”
“In the flats, the water was uniformly shallow and the foam residue of the waves extended for hundreds of yards, like suds in the bottom of a huge drained bath tub. Lanes formed behind the waves in this area, straight long-line streamers stretching out behind them as they broke towards shore. Auburn kelp fronds, swept […]
Continue reading“An Everyday Saint”
“Spiritual literature is replete with stories of great service rendered by worshipful believers to God and guru. But here, I thought, sat a simple woman of the world, who had been tested with Job-like tribulations and had, without fanfare or recognition by others, transcended her miseries to achieve genuine humility, grace, and quiet contentedness. Every […]
Continue reading“Childhood Spirituality”
“Skylar’s saunter to school took, then, an ever-so-slightly-indulgent path on which stones came to magical life, fallen leaves wheezed goodbye to the world, and gutter water sluiced in turbulent runnels. These observations of animate nature were interspersed with time-transcendent, frozen moments in which he experienced a tangible sense of stoppage, of everything: of people, pebbles, […]
Continue reading“Dissolving”
“After the waves spent themselves against the sand, the lazy whitewater spume formed crescent shapes, which overlapped like paint blobs on an artist’s palette, some superjacent, some underneath. As I lost my sense of a separate self, a physical form with a so-called mind contained in that shape, my soul flowed out, spreading, deliquescing, and […]
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