I am a horrible person. Rude, uncouth, bizarre and out of control, so I’ve been told. Apparently, I’ve been this way since childhood. If you are looking for an upside to this, it seems I am less so nowadays. It may have something to do with retirement and not being…

Some days things cross my desk in the morning news that I never imagine I’ll see. Today one of those was seeing an online article about witch bottles washing up on the shores of Texas. It has been so long since I’ve seen anything about witch bottles that I had…

Today one of my friends said the most normal thing in the world to me. She informed me that she was going off to work where she would mutter to herself all day. My guardian angel chuckled. He whispered to me that I used to think the same thing. My…

Think about the last time you heard someone say that it’s the journey, not the destination. When was the last time you heard someone on the television, in a podcast, on the radio or just in everyday conversation say those words? That it’s not the destination, it’s about the journey…

The morning of October 27, 2023, I sat down for my morning meditation, a silent period I have grown to love and appreciate over the last fifty years. Without warning, my meditation immediately turned into an exorcism. I have previously found myself performing exorcisms or other spiritual work during a…

As I grow older and wait to die, a seemingly interminable process, some things remain the same over the course of my life. Not all of my likes and dislikes are the same as they were when Dwight Eisenhower was president. I still love to read. Television is less interesting…

It was tempting a few weeks ago to write about the feeling that we were on the cusp of yet another impending war. It turns out that war began in what once was known as the Kingdom of Palestine. All of the kingdoms of the Levant, whatever their many names…

A friend who is also a native to the Upper Midwest was speaking recently in one of my spirituality groups about avoidance and aggression. Without warning I felt as if my head had been caught between a pair of clapping angel hands. There was a crashing boom simultaneous to feeling…

How spiritually alive do you want to be? It’s not the books we read — or write — that make us spiritual giants. If that were the case, imagine if we looked at the spirituality in the books of Elmore Leonard or John le Carre. Both wrote wonderful novels. I…