This week's word is one of my favorite words in the whole English lexicon, in part because of the notions of careful thought, deliberat...

The annual Perseid meteor shower is in progress, and this year, it will peak on August 12 - 13. I just have to write something about late s...

The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one jour...

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. The stars form a circle,  and in the center we dance. Rumi

Looking at the heavens places me in time and space - and beyond them. Gazing at the stars, I look through heaven’s wrinkle; the light I see ...

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds da...

This week's word is one of my favorite words in the whole English lexicon, in part because of the notions of careful thought, deliberati...

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. The stars form a circle, and in the center we dance. Rumi

What a wild ride this is. Spinning at six thousand miles per hour on a minuscule ball in a field of stars that stretches into millions of ga...

Tonight I walk. I am watching the sky. I think of the people who came before me and how they knew the placement of the stars in the sky, wat...

This week's word is one of my favorite words in the whole English lexicon, in part because of the notions of careful thought, deliberati...

The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To ...

There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing—for the same reason that we stand, hour after hour, gazing at ...

Looking at the heavens places me in time and space - and beyond them. Gazing at the stars, I look through heaven’s wrinkle; the light I see...

The annual Perseid meteor shower is in progress, and it is almost over, ending in a few days around August 23rd. I just have to write someth...

I am a child of the Milky Way. The night is my mother. I am made of the dust of stars. Every atom in my body was forged in a star. When the...

Looking at the heavens places me in time and space - and beyond them. Gazing at the stars, I look through heaven’s wrinkle; the light I see ...

I am a child of the Milky Way. The night is my mother. I am made of the dust of stars. Every atom in my body was forged in a star. When ...

Looking at the heavens places me in time and space - and beyond them. Gazing at the stars, I look through heaven’s wrinkle; the light I ...

There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing—for the same reason that we stand, hour after hour, gaz...