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The Oracle
If you’ve ever visited Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota, you’ve seen him: The Oracle. A rock formation that, for all the world, looks like the profile of a wise tribal elder. I have a...
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Love, Magic and Being Grown Up
Many things about my childhood predisposed me to believe in magic. The mighty Mississippi, limestone bluffs riddled with old lead mines, our proximity to the library which had an amazing children’s...
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…Changing the Dream (part 2 of 2)
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” –MLK Jr. When I was in graduate school, we used a visualization activity called “The Perfect Future Day Fantasy”, in which we...
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50 about 50: Books
“This is the way you have spoken to me, the way – startled - I find I have heard you. When I need it, a book or a slip of paper appears in my hand… …Your spirits relax, – now she is looking, you say...
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Repository of Memory
I sometimes astound my friends with stories about my childhood – their surprise generally surrounds either the fact that my five siblings and I never killed anyone or the concept that I was allowed to...
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Wish it. Will it. Do it.
“…you will sooner or later experience something almost magical: the moment when your mind, led by your sense of yearning, embraces the next step toward the best life you are capable of living. This is...
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Learning Not to Kill the Magic
On my recent visit to New Mexico, my parents and I drove to the Jemez State Monument. The drive from their home in Rio Rancho to the monument is gorgeous. As we passed one of several pueblos my father...
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Expectancy
December always carries a sense of expectancy, of waiting with bated breath, for something magical or wondrous to occur. For me, of course, the season of Advent and the Christian celebration of the...
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Meinrad Craighead and The Magic of Synchronicity
“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of...
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