The Guest House —  By Jelaluddin Rumi This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your…

She descended the stairs into the subterranean bar. The venue was not its typical laidback atmosphere; it was chockfull of ghouls and goblins, witches and devils, skeletons and superheroes all for one of biggest social events of the year – Halloween night in Madison, Wisconsin. On that night the bars…

A small brass trophy sits on our kitchen counter. It has already assumed its position among the other clutter that accumulates in a well lived-in kitchen, camouflaging itself…

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.  ~Charles DeLint Last week, I came across…