Atacama desert, Chile I don’t often think “Road Trip” when I think of Lent, but this year as these 40 days get underway, I am tingling with an urge to simply GO. Not that I have a destination or even a particularly conscious reason, but there is a part of me just ready to shoulder…

Ash Wednesday, 2013   Mark me as one inclined toward life, toward love and its deeper knowing.   Mark me as one inclined toward love, toward the company of compassion.   Mark me as one inclined toward compassion, toward the yes that flames boldly.   Mark me as one inclined toward yes, toward the difficult…

Four times last week alone I had people ask me–What do you write in that notebook? The question should not surprise me…many have asked me that over the years (decades) that I have carried at least one notebook and a number of pens in whatever bag I have slung across my body or in the pockets of whatever…