Author: calledtobealive

Today I pause to consider  the voice I give what in and around is happening More aware of my choice in the meanings I voice to myself and those near […]

Making music together since 1969,Gib and I joined the muse again last nightencouraging others to sing along How do we know when we’re aging well?When we step out of our […]

Memorise is the preferred spellingamong somefor learning by heart Sounds true that whatI want to be and domust rise from that core of my being So from all I see […]

I am listening on this feast dayfor the melody of resistancein modest Mary’s magnificent song Her “let it be,” her “do less and be more”a counterpoint to the muzak and […]

The force of aging is like the tide going outopening to us the fulness of lifeforever coming from within

Shoes Off I took my shoes offThat I like Moses might stand on Holy groundPondering softly the call of I Am I but an atom In a single grain of […]

In earlier working yearsI had a plaque on my desk that read:“God be in my mind and in my learning” Now in later life that same sayingis in my heart, […]

After a walk with a friend on a Fort Eby trail,I was reminded of a little book by Thich Nhat Hanhon how to walk, practicing awareness of Love’s energy that […]

While never a stunt horse riderlike Liberty Cunningham as a teen,I did ride a train to Seattle just out of high school And for this boy from a small town […]

“The Child’s Toys and the Old Man’s ReasonsAre the fruits of Two seasons” -William Blake