Category Archives: One Minute Monologues

08/01/2013 — 09/30/2013 We can rise to any occasion and shoot ourselves in the foot at any moment. When we do what tells the tale that we came to tell. Eventually we all run out of luck. But, we get to do our thing as long as life lasts. Lucky or unlucky, there is alwaysContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 012”

June 15, 2013 – August 01, 2013 Our life is like a dream which wakes us up to the life we are called to live—if we look at it with eyes that see. We read our life—interpret our life, what is happening in our life, what we are doing about it—as though it were aContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 011”

05/13/2013– 06/16/2013 No Theology! It ought to be a bumper sticker. No Doctrine! This is called the doctrine of no doctrine. Bad religion looks for something beyond the experience of life to justify the experience of life—and to look forward to once “this vale of tears” is left behind through death. The experience of lifeContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 010”

03/22/2013 — 05/13/2013 Well. Here we are. What can we do with it? Sometimes, it takes waiting to see. I travel to a distant location to photograph a particular scene, but the light isn’t there when I arrive. Maybe it’s raining. Maybe it’s overcast. Maybe it’s snowing. You get the idea. Now what? In myContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 009”

12/27/2012 — 03/22/2013 We are all Leaving Egypt—the land of bondage, the house of oppression, the place of enslavement to someone else’s idea of who we ought to be. Egypt is the Wasteland, where everyone does what they are told. Where no one thinks for herself, for himself, or lives a life that could beContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 008”

10/05/2012 — 12/27/2012 Bass Lake 05, Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, Blue Ridge Parkway near Blowing Rock, NC — October 5, 2012 — We only have to take the first step, the rest of the way will open before us as we start walking. We do not have to have the journey plotted and planned.Continue reading “One Minute Monologues 007”

07/14/2012–10/08/2012 Alone, Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone, NC — July 13, 2012 — 22 If we followed the Dali Lama around all day, we would be dead of boredom by breakfast. That’s because he arises for meditation at 4 AM and it doesn’t pick up from there. Compare his life with our idea of howContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 006”

05/03/2012 –07/12/2012 Dandelions, Blue Ridge Parkway, near Orchard Gap, VA—May 1, 2012 —If we saw the truth we would have to do something about it. Better not to look. The truth I’m talking about is the truth of how things are (which includes how things also are). The truth of our life. The truth isContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 005”

02/05/2012 — 05/03/12 Calloway Gap Road, Blue Ridge Parkway near West Jefferson, NC—February 03, 2012 — We bring ourselves forth within the terms and conditions of our life. This is called walking two paths at the same time. Or, multitasking. We have to think about what we are doing. This is where the left hemisphereContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 004”

11/17/2011 — 02/04/2012 11/17/2011 — We can serve our life, bring forth our life, live our life anywhere, within any context, every circumstance. We don’t have to have anything to be who we are. Prisoner of War camps are as good as Penthouses for serving the needs of soul and expressing what is ours toContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 003”