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It was spring, and the cherry blossoms around our home on the island of Shikoku were in full bloom. One afternoon I wandered around...

For folks wanting to connect with what I'm doing, there is a podcast of my interview with Contemplify, a series that "kindle the examined...

We came to the U.S. on this day many years ago. Entering was easy because we were with our American father, and he had made all of us...

In February I journeyed north to Arcata, California to spend a short time with Dr. Virgil Moorehead and his Native community. I was...

Life sure is strange. So there I was talking in a church with the statue of Robert E. Lee behind me. The same Robert. E. Lee whose statue...

Today is the Vernal Equinox, the first day of spring, and though a few copies trickled out early, this is the auspicious official...

Today we commemorate the seventh anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that swept away so many lives and traumatized so many others...

This excerpt from the book is in today's Daily Good: March 8, 2018. http://www.dailygood.org/ Heartfulness describes a way of being in...

I once imagined myself as the Celtic Samurai. Not sure what it meant, but sounded catchy. I developed an oral storytelling that I...

“She waited for you,” the priest told me. I believe she did. It had been a long trip to get there and Obaachan had been on a long journey...

For a writer, emerging from a long period in hiding, the sun's brilliance is blinding. You see in a flash how much of life you have been...

Woke up this morning to a provocative article in The New York Times: "Black With (Some) White Privilege." I'm especially interested these...

I first encountered Richard Katz when he was a professor at Harvard talking about healing and transformation at a time and place in which...

When Eric Clapton's son died in a tragic and horrible accident at age four, Eric turned to writing words and music for healing. He feels...

My friend Charlie surprised me one day when he shouted out, "I need a dog!" His little sweetheart companion had passed away and Charlie...

The end of the war liberated my mother. Like many other Japanese, for the first time she was able to imagine how she might make a life...