There are seasons in a person’s life when even beauty becomes unbearable. For me, music was once that kind of beauty — too powerful, too tender, too true. After heartbreak carved its quiet ache into the deepest parts of me, I found I couldn’t bear to listen anymore. Not to anything. Not even the soft songs. Some music still lingers behind a closed door in my soul — one I’m not ready to open. Now and then, a line drifts through the distance — Did you say she was pretty? Did yo

Stillness came that morning as a hungry competitor to Quiet. Stillness raised its lowered head and asked Quiet "Will you let me just be?" Quiet looked beyond Stillness and gave no answer as that is it's way. Silence then emerged from behind them both. Quiet, Stillness and Silence - together at last. I sat in meditation this evening. The quiet surroundings gave way to an ideal meditation experience. Yet, my sincere intentions of letting go, leaving this physical world were met

I recently sat by the mighty ocean's edge as the rhythmic ebb and flow of the salty water kissed my feet. My mind contemplating the past few years of my ongoing spiritual struggle. The trials of life seemed too overbearing to share with you here. My penchant for privacy and my school of hard knocks learned caution to escape being judged rose up inside myself like a burning fire. One that burns hot yet is controlled. It's been a difficult past 3 years with the past year and ha