Breathing Out Stars

The open spaces & the river

Some people are good at tennis.  I am not. I do have a special, innate skill in fire-building.  

The medicine mix

Back when I had a radio show called The Medicine Mix, I invited a rabbi, a pastor and a surgeon onto the show…so we could discuss prayer and healing.  After the show was over, we were still talking about it in the elevator down to our cars.

The Underworld

Sure I knew what to expect. I’d been there before.  The lesson for me: fate will surprise you.

Peacocks & Resistance

it is said that prayer is the highest form of rebellion -- you are daring to ask for a different world.

Molotov cocktails --and cocktails.

A podcast is an art form – filled with heart and dreams and intellect and color and sound editing. And reality.   Things are pretty real right now.   It's not a time I feel like being funny.   This is a time to feel things.

Playing Whack-A-Mole in a Straight Jacket

It’s not enough to just get COVID.  Let’s add fifty more limitations on top of that — or just feel like you have.   It’s just Whack-A-Mole.

When Life Gives You COVID, Make Lemon Cake

We may or may not have multiple cases of COVID in the house -- you decide for yourself how we are doing.

The skipper

With five percent visibility on the lake, they were trapped in a sudden storm.   Honestly it had come out of nowhere.    But the skipper….she prayed…

Hope, The Fig...and a little bit of Faith

...."Faith is not even real, you might say"...but I am here to offer that Faith is like your abs or your quads or your biceps.  For it to work, you have to exercise it...

Notes from the Ark: Doves, Cypress & Olive Trees

We are back in the ark and send out doves to check on the world.   The dove brings back myrtle & olive -- to remind us to see with our hearts -- and that magic can come from nothing.