Into the Obvious: Love, sex, and other worthy themes
We had been making love for over an hour! We had been gracefully alive in our bodies. Our hearts were full, and our spirits had been well fed, very well fed. I was ready to slow down, to pause. I knew she wanted to ‘stay in’ longer. Why wouldn’t she, given her persistent desire, her…
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Of all the possible acquisitions of duty and calling, a willingness to live above, around, and/or below redundant fear remains my most persistent thrust forward. I feel ‘living’ as existentially perilous, while at the same time experientially safe. As such, paradoxical notions of truth inspire in me ample considerations of evaluating wonder! In these viral…
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Some years back, back when my life was reconfiguring towards the erotic, I walked a labyrinth in the style of the famous labyrinth of Chartres. It was during a retreat I was attending with a particularly important lover. At the time, we were in a dynamic process of shifting our relationship from being primary lovers…
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I am ‘riding out’ this historic Covid 19 pandemic on Maui. I am swimming purposefully and gratefully in this unique experience. I am considering and evaluating much. I am enjoying it immensely. I am being in the moment a lot and liking where I am! I am also spending as much time as I can…
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‘Civility’ is like a dress on a wild beast chained to a tree, ridiculously absurd and brilliantly pathetic. ‘Civil’ is a rational conjecture. As such it is more like a ‘hope’, something that desires to be felt rather than knowledge to trust true. To feel is to align with a story, to know truth is…
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