The Round Year

There is an old Navajo blessing that starts with ‘may you walk in beauty’, a reminder to appreciate what a gift it is to belong in the world.  The beauty of existence runs deep beneath its surface, into its structure ...

A symbol is a stand-in for something else. What? Anything you wish and anything your mind can conjure: ideas, feelings, objects, events, shorthands, messages, memory aids. We use symbols to condense meaning into its smallest form, for immediate reference, portability, ...

We’re all many people, spun together in a bundle of threads we call the self, a constantly changing manifold that gains and loses components like a branching river with tributaries and deltas. We don’t think about how much we change ...

The seasons, the revolution of heavenly bodies, the water cycle, circadian rhythms, the endless chain of births and deaths, the structure of the atom, reality is made of circles. Some are obvious and some are set to time frames that ...