If we look in a certain way, we see that everything in our universe is about one of two things: either movement—which is energy, change, information—or stillness—which has to do with awareness, capacity, or space. I like to think the work I do is mostly...
Just about a year before the virus landed, Dianne and I moved to Vashon, one of the islands of Puget Sound. On many days I work in the woods around our house, clearing away dead wood or fitting chunks of basalt into shapes you might...
These days I’ve been aware of how important it is to distinguish what’s going on around us—whatever the state the world is in—from what’s going on within us—the state we’re in. In the past, I’ve used the metaphor of the moon and the lake to point...