Wayward

  • Motion and Stilness

    Motion and Stilness

    The evening rises up from the gray ocean and settles into my eyes, echoes of the hideaway time.…


  • Aspects of Unity

    Aspects of Unity

    If you pick up a globe and hold the world at arms’ length, from that vantage point you…


  • The Embrace of the Infinite

    The Embrace of the Infinite

    I sped west through the wine country of California, through the almond orchards and the fields of oil…


  • Dust and Fire

    Dust and Fire

    Baker, California is the home of the largest thermometer in the world. I saw it as I sped…


  • Southward Soulward

    Southward Soulward

    It happened a few days ago in Yellowstone. Night was fast approaching. The park was closing and I…


  • Pivot

    Pivot

    My back hurts from sitting for 10 to 11 hours a day. When I close my eyes, I…


  • Wheel, Mountain, Truth

    Wheel, Mountain, Truth

    I spent three days wandering Wyoming, seeking out a home in the grass and in the wind, driving…


  • Spirals

    Spirals

    I visited the site of Wounded Knee in the early morning South Dakotan sun. It was marked with…


  • Rain

    Rain

    It was so beautiful and so perfect in Kansas City that I almost considered staying there and ending…


  • The Valley of the Sun

    The Valley of the Sun

    I walk the breeze of the late Missouri morning as grasshoppers coax out the last drops of summer’s…


  • Banshees and Staterooms

    Banshees and Staterooms

    I used to imagine that it was a ghost train. It would emerge from the night, a dark…


  • Little Ghosts

    Little Ghosts

    My mother warned me to be careful playing with fire while lighting incense. I told her that I…