I'm a stranger here I'm only passing through, but every place I go leaves it's own tattoo. That's how it is laying stone on stone, building little altars by the side of the road.

we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up. From A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays

Let it go my love my truest, let it sail on silver wings. Life's a twinkling that's for certain, but it's such a fine thing. There's a gathering of spirits. There's a festival of friends. And we'll take up where we left off, when we all meet again.

There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely." From A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology. From A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays

A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished. From A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays