This year I published my first audiobook. My 2019 poetry collection “All the Beloved Known Things” is now available on Audible, iBooks, and Amazon. I just released by first audiobook, so for my fellow scribes I offer my roadmap: What I Used to Release my Audiobook I used ACX, which is like KDP for audiobooks…
The heart-work is in the hearing. The hearing is in the listening. The listening is in the legend that once upon a time a rocket ship made of words brought us to life and from pathos came ethos and egos and hard work and scattering and scavenging the ditches for ideas that will teach us how to touch the starlight that’s still left in us on this journey back home where it feels like our parents have locked us in a room full of brownies and scorpions.
This world, this life, this uncharted wonder beneath it all, ever beckoning us back to the beauty both beyond and within us all.
Yesterday I caught up with a friend of twenty years. She asked me how I was doing. “Honestly,” I said, “really amazing, 2020 was one of the best years ever!” “You’re like…THE ONLY ONE I’ve heard say that,” she said, a tone of incredulity underpinning her giggle. She went on to tell me of her…
Heroes, do not dim.
Share your light with us,
we who have lost the sense of place
and hidden in certainties
that lack the love of sinking
into life’s mysterious muddle.
Because I’m a nice guy, and everybody wants to see a bear.
Home to me are those moments outside the plotting struggles we constantly confront just to meet our needs. Home is waking up and not needing to be anywhere and do anything, which frees you to do the everything your heart needs.
I was the touch on the spoon before the mouthful, the moment between the songs, the anticipation between the tracks.
Miracles aren’t often great flashes of light. They’re moments when we somehow break through an old habit, grief, or grudge.
In the woods, everywhere is a toilet
