Carrying My Grandmother

Carrying My Grandmother

I had the sad but honorable experience of serving as a pallbearer for my grandmother. She died on New Year’s Day after ninety-four years of pure love and pure service and sacrifice. Carrying her was one of the most solemn and meaningful things I have ever done....
The Feminine Archetypes

The Feminine Archetypes

I have spent years studying the Jungian masculine archetypes: the King, the Warrior, the Magician, and the Lover. I understand them deeply. But I kept wondering what the feminine counterparts actually look like, not in theory, but in a real person standing right in...
Forgive Before It Happens

Forgive Before It Happens

I have carried resentment and I have carried forgiveness. I know what both feel like in the body, in the mind, in the long, quiet hours of a night when you cannot sleep. There is no comparison. The weight of unforgiven offenses is suffocating in a way that compounds...
Reverence Makes Men Whole

Reverence Makes Men Whole

Immanuel Kant, one of the most rigorous minds in the history of philosophy, boiled the entire human project down to four questions: What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope for? And what is man? Those questions have been rattling around in serious heads...
Forget Yourself and Work

Forget Yourself and Work

Twenty-five years ago I shipped out to Perth, Australia, with two suitcases and no idea what I was getting into. For two years I lived without music, television, movies, dating, or the internet. When I wrote letters home to my family, it took two weeks for them to...