This past week was a cornucopia of color as fall ripens in the Berkshires. Here are just a few of my favorite pictures from this time... ...

An Evening of Music, Poetry and Solidarity   A Benefit for Berkshire Interfaith Organizing (BIO) First Church on Park Square 27...

Two years ago I formed a small spiritual direction practice: Be Still and Know . After 30 years of informal practice, it was time for me to ...

This has been an introspective day: I started to build my All Saints/All Souls Day family altar. For the better part of the morning I went...

Most men have been condition to understand themselves through what they do: in this we are more human do-ing than human be-ing. As the botto...

Today is stunning in these hills: the sun is bright, the wetlands and woods are shrouded in yellows and grays, the burning bushes are shou...

I am not want to rise early. Beyond a doubt, I have reveled in the majesty of a sunrise. And tasted the sweetness of awe in the solita...

Today is my brother's birthday. He is in Northern California and heading to a little hippie town in Marin County for supper with his swe...

The fullness of fall has arrived in these New England hills. The temperature is sliding ever lower each day, every 24 hours we regularly los...

One of the strangest things I have read recently was a note from an organic gardener in New England offering advice on ripening tomatoes. He...