Category: Essays

The essays shared on my blog are typically longer-form writing, with a high bar for quality.

Introducing Heartspace Practice

The heart—not your anatomical heart on the left side of your chest, but your emotional heart center in the center of it—has many capacities. The heart feels—happy and sad and angry and afraid and many…

The Dark

You are reading a novel, and the protagonist is on the verge of making a choice.

An Offering of Silent Retreats

Last spring, a friend contacted me to introduce me to North Burn. North was beginning a project to host extended silent meditation retreats for dedicated practitioners in a beautiful setting in the Pacific Northwest. Having…

Boundaries

This post shares everything I’ve learned so far about boundaries, and what’s worked for me.

Maximum Deep Benefit

I intentionally structure my projects to create what I call “maximum deep benefit”: helping as many people as possible, as deeply as possible.

Notes on Learning Tai Chi

As with most things in my life, I’m not an expert in Tai Chi. But the little that I know, and that I practice each day, has brought me great joy and many benefits.