serves fellow explorers of life’s two most important questions: What’s going on, and what’s the healthiest action I can take in this moment? To this end, Steve champions the most fear-provoking point of view the world has ever known: Everything is a gift, and the business of life is discovering how come. He finds the spirit of the universe to be playful, loving, deep. Besides laughter and the sharing of experience, his expressions of this spirit include several hundred essays, a novel, some 2000 drawings, countless stone sculptures built & photographed on his Vermont mountainside over a quarter century, and a portfolio of professional communication for clients who favor a collaborator who aspires to write like a freight train driven by Mother Teresa.
Having Someone’s Back
I’m grateful that I didn’t discover my beloved in the barn hanging but not quite dead. I know what I would have done. I would have sat with her as she died, surrounding her with my love. She knew I wouldn’t waver in supporting her choice. Serving the call of the other’s heart was the
Safe Landing Right Up My Alley
17 December 2019. Five months. A recent dream. I’m in a commercial airliner. We are approaching a large metropolitan airport. It becomes apparent that this landing is an emergency of some kind. We are entering a corridor bordered on both sides by the kind of big towers used for electric transmission or broadcast outlets.
The Desire for Answers
Ever watch Penn and Teller? Or the late Ricky Jay? Or any other stellar magician? They amaze us because they do things that defy our mind’s addiction to understand on terms that make sense to us. If asked to define “human nature” in five words or fewer, my candidate would be “The desire for answers.”
Bowing to the Future
The tsunami of the heart triggered by my beloved’s need to exit this incarnation reminds me how valuable it has been to have spent so much of my life trying to grasp how the universe works. Not that I hold an answer that’s useful for anyone but me. The one I do have
The Meaning of Difficult
The car radio was broadcasting an interview with Dr. William Kaelin, a Harvard guy who’d just been awarded this year’s Noble Prize in Medicine. The news raised no eyebrows among those familiar with leading edge medical research. In recent years Dr. Kaelin had received several other forms of recognition that are often precursors to the
Dreams After Death
When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has found. ~Sufi proverb Two months ago my beloved died. The person I was died with her. We were soul playmates for 45 years. I look forward to being able to share stories of her life and how she came