Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn’t do something more complex. Don’t be confused by the word simple. Simple...

A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to...

God walks ’round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that’s the truth. You can’t always tell but sometimes you just know. ” From Geodes

But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From “If Not Now

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble,...

There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.

Dear heart, we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to...