“Men have become women, and women have become men,” the young woman passionately proclaimed as we stood talking in the park. More than half my age, she succinctly voiced something…
Martin LeFevre
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After a meditation by the stream, I only have enough time to walk a short loop. Beginning on a narrow path that parallels the creek, I circle back via a…
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Nothing epitomizes the deep disappointment of people of conscience in Barack Obama than his ham-handed invitation to George W. Bush to fly aboard Air Force One to Nelson Mandela’s funeral.…
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Nearly 24 hours of wind have stripped most of the remaining leaves from the trees. Suddenly it is winter, such as it is in the lowlands of northern California.
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The basic contradiction of man is this: ‘higher thought’ (that is, symbolic or conscious thought) is inherently separative, whereas nature and the universe operate from the principle of seamless wholeness.…
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[In honor of Nelson Mandela, we are re-posting this column, published in 2010, with a few revisions and excisions] The movie “Invictus,” though a bit lumbering, predictable and sentimental, is worth…
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Arriving at the creek at the edge of town on the bike at the zenith of the day, a large woodland hawk alights a small tree across the creek, and…
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This time of year, from Thanksgiving to Christmas, is the most on-display, consumeristic, and spiritually and emotionally empty time of year in America.More American homes this year already had Christmas…