Did you ever feel that charge, that current? Did you ever feel the charge that transforms strangers into friends? Did you ever feel the power of that current that carries fire? That is the current that charges two solitudes! You cannot know when two eyes meet Whether two souls will connect. You cannot know when two fingers touch,  Whether it will ignite a fire that warms you both or not. It could be a lover or just a welcome fellow traveler With whom you navigate through life. It could begin...

Paying Attention? We say that we “pay” attention, as if it were a currency. Finitude gives it value. Or perhaps attention might be a bill that is due. I think that we acknowledge that attention has value How we spend it or pay it makes our priorities clear. There is a big and noisy marketplace for our attention. A clamoring bazaar of competing voices and clanging noise, All eager to have this currency of ours. You can easily waste it, throw it away. You don’t have that much to spend Or...

Even an agnostic can pray this prayer, Doing it even if not certain that the call will go through. But here goes-- Deliver me from everything stupid I have said or done Deliver me from every lie I have told, especially the ones I told myself. Deliver me from my Egypt, Where I was in slavery to blindness to those around me. Where the shiny sun of ego made me not see the needs of others. Building pyramids of illusions and pointless self-deception. Deliver me from indifference, from staring at...