What if the situation you can’t fix is also on your side?

A poem.

Every path a being takes is fashioned by its interactions with other beings. An interaction between two beings (Chris Gaffney & Corey Hitchcock) leads to the triptych of pieces found here. Each piece speaks to the myriad and foundational nature of interaction in establishing being, whether the being in question be person or electron. Which […]

Stereo or Quadraphonic Sound Installation for 100 Voices and Laptop

The art of change.

I am an internal medicine doctor. In that capacity, I go to distant places, meet interesting people, and eat weird food. In these journeys, I’ve noticed how technology connects us, often awkwardly, with each other.

“Water and thirst are good”: from the proverbs of Antonio Machado.

A letter from the Director of Social Services at Broad Street Ministry, Philadelphia.

When the heart opens to longing, it opens a little bit to everything.

An introduction to Santoka’s way.

One shows, one tells: two encounters with appetite.

The gift of less–a composition for solo clarinet.

Drenched in seeing.

In a dream I heard: “Underground, all waters touch.”

You were so near the origins / you had taken off your face.

Holding vows as koans–and opening to your own life.

Finding a ripe and secret sweetness down at the bottom of this river.

Sometime in the 1940s when my mother was growing up, my grandfather had a spontaneous transformation. It happened between lunch and his arrival at the Biltmore Health Club, I think.

On holding loss–and more loss.

Real life is choosing your socks.

Visualize getting it.