Reflections from the ongoing work of practice, leadership, and attention.
These essays reflect an ongoing practice of attention—exploring grief, leadership, belonging, and what it means to live into a new story, personally and collectively.
Stewarding the New Story: A Grand Synthesis of the New Story Stewards Program
How do we meet a world in upheaval? Through grounding, witnessing, shared grief, and connection to the divine, we begin to give the New Story form. A reflection on the New Story Stewards Program and how Spirit finds expression through our stewardship.
Embracing Mystical Life: Part Two
In this second reflection on Embracing Mystical Life, I explore the tension between surrender and responsibility, vocation and spiritual practice. Through contemplation of the Way of Community, questions about public service, leadership, writing, and spiritual formation emerge alongside a deeper inquiry into nature, presence, and the soul’s ongoing return to Spirit. This report on practice reflects on holding uncertainty, trusting the journey, and recognizing the threads of grace that have appeared throughout a lifetime.
Embracing Mystical Life: Part One
This reflection explores what it means to remember ourselves as souls in a culture that often pulls us toward distraction, productivity, and disconnection from deeper presence. Through stories, contemplative practice, personal reflection, and metaphor - from the Rainmaker and the Grail to mindfulness, social media, and the natural movement away from our source - it considers what it means to stay rooted in Spirit while living fully in modern life. Ultimately, this piece is about remembering connection, cultivating presence, and learning how to return to balance even as life continues to pull us outward.
Something Rather Than Nothing
Every so often, my son and I fall into long conversations that stretch across everything—physics, philosophy, God, and what it means to live a good life. In one of those conversations, he asked a simple question: what does it mean to follow God? I didn’t have a definitive answer, but I found myself returning to something more basic—the fact that there is something rather than nothing, and what that might ask of us.
My Heart Doesn’t Fit in a Box
There is a growing amount of attention, energy, and legislation directed at a very small group of people. This piece steps back to ask why, and to explore the human, biological, and societal complexity we often ignore. A reflection on gender, grief, and the consequences of mistaking our categories for reality.
Listening to Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
I attended the Summit on Crime Survivors because I knew commercial sexual exploitation was an area I did not understand well enough. What stayed with me most deeply were the voices of survivors, and the question of what responsibility listening creates when listening alone is not enough.
Grief as Learning: A reflection on The Grieving Brain
A reflection on grief as a learning process—how the brain struggles to update after loss, and how attention, time, and care can slowly reshape our relationship to what has changed.