A Better Way
We all know there is a better way, a way that nurtures blossoms and celebrates the songs of birds without leaving a trail of thorns for 30 years. We all…
We all know there is a better way, a way that nurtures blossoms and celebrates the songs of birds without leaving a trail of thorns for 30 years. We all…
When I was a kid, my two-year old brother contracted a bad case of eczema. My father, a fanatical renegade Mormon, believed that my brother’s affliction was a test of…
Dear Reader, Once again the world has shifted, a cultural tsunami if you will, this time in the form of a judicial coup upending 50 years of precedent with the…
I’ve been silent for a while, marveling at the intersection between trauma and spiritual awakening, wondering how it is that with even the most profound insights into the unity of…
47 years ago I was at the end of a month in the wilderness planting trees, living communally, reading Krishnamurti and smoking way too much cannabis when something snapped. I wound…
This morning I remembered an old saying that gives me hope during chaotic times, "Not a thousand armies can oppose an idea whose time has come." This saying comes back…
"Messenger" © 2016 by Richard Welker Like millions of people around the world, I have been fixated on the coronavirus pandemic. I have watched in outrage at the refusal of…
Moose Dreaming Recently I have been on hyper alert following the progress of the catastrophic fires in New South Wales, Australia. My daughter and her husband are directly in the path…
Wake Up Call This last year I’ve been acutely aware of the fact that I’m aging. What was effortless yesterday is not so easy now. My skin has alarming wrinkles,…
There are nights when I awaken at 3:00 am full of anxiety and concern about what is happening to us. Can we even survive the ordeal we are engaged in…