In reflecting recently on rare occurrences, I remember meeting only once a fellow named Joe Lobel. A friend of mine who was a social worker introduced me to his boss from the agency he worked at. They worked together at Gracie Square Hospital. Joe sparked an interest in my friend for several reasons. Firstly, Joe, […]

When I first met Jana Napoli 20 years ago, she took my hands, opened them up, studied them carefully and slowly began revealing to me things that I might have known about myself, but could not articulate fully. Or revealed to me things that I did not acknowledge. For over two decades of our friendship, […]

“Actual Fact: you could make an entire second world out of what people throw away. The landfill is where I figured out one of my main philosophies, that everybody alive is basically in the process of trading out their stuff for different stuff, day in day out.” —Barbara Kingslover, Demon Copperhead Museum Mission Statement: “To […]

I just returned from TSL (Time and Space Limited) in Hudson, NY after viewing a film by Werner Herzog entitled Theater of Thought. Ask me what I thought? And I must honestly reply, “I don’t know what to think. I’m writing this to collect my thoughts.” Neuroscience seems to know so much, yet the mystery […]

Wildness is very difficult to wrap my mind around. Perhaps because it’s wildness that is bigger than ourselves and impossible to comprehend fully. Over the last two years I have been exploring “wildness” in a nature based spiritual practice that requires that I spend time outside and in “wild nature.” At all times of the […]