Chasing Light Blog

Listen. It's been a tough year, a crazy year. An unthinkable year. The loss of life, unimaginable. So many shattered hopes and dreams....

Greetings, all you lovely people! I hope all is well with you and yours and everyone is enjoying the full beauty of spring! I am now...

A meditation from early last month. Hoping everyone is staying healthy. Spring is on the way! I’m standing at the edge of a floodplain in...

This morning the water in both birdbaths was frozen solid. As I sat with my morning coffee, the doves and the finches and the...

Dear Ones, I write to you from the other side of something, but I’m not sure what. On the other side of the Winter Solstice, the moment...

The word comes from the French, enchanter, meaning, "bewitch, charm, cast a spell," which is in turn from the Latin, incantare, "to...

It is late afternoon on this bright, chilly winter day, and I am ensconced in a small 1800's-era adobe casita in the heart of...

Where has the summer gone?? Egad! Just yesterday, back in May, when the lilacs were blooming and a spring breeze blew in through my...

Well I left my happy home To see what I could find out I left my folk and friends With the aim to clear my mind out Cat Stevens’s...

“There is an end to everything, to good things as well.” (So sayeth 14th century poet Geoffrey Chaucer in his epic poem, "Troilus and...

It is Day Six of my eighteen-day residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. VCCA is in Amherst, Virginia, home of Sweet...

I want to take a moment and welcome new subscribers, many who've joined this “Chasing Light” caravan after reading my travel essay in The...

It is early on a Sunday morning. I’m sitting in the empty lobby bar at the Renaissance Marriott Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina, the...