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For those who yearn for a glimmer of the vast and mysterious. For what points to something bigger than ourselves. What gives us hope.
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For the Time Being (opens the original)
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Dear Fellow Dreamer,In the outpouring of tributes to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard, rarely do I see much mention of one of my favourite books in the world. Dillard’s For the Time Being came out in 1999, just as my old life was collapsing into a new one. I don’t remember buying the book. I must have read it in the house I was leaving.At the time, I was scribbling poems, and had been (mostly in closets), for years. In '99, one of them was p
New Book Trailer! (opens the original)
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Dear Fellow Dreamer,I wanted you to see it first—the trailer for my new novel, River of Dreams. I wanted to show my gratitude to you for being a subscriber to Awakening Wonder. The trailer goes out on social media later in September.Co-creating this little preview of the novel has been a summer highlight. Credit to Katie McBride for sound production and video editing.Here it is!My heartfelt thanks to everyone who’s been so supportive of this novel. Your kind messages matter. Every sale helps.I’m
Late Summer Poems (opens the original)
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Dear Fellow Dreamer,Deep in the night when I can’t sleep, fiction and poetry are my friends. (See below for a few of my current reads.) But when the hour’s beyond late, spiritual writings form a direct path to rest. This past week, I picked up a text I’ve mentioned before, Caitlín Matthews’ Singing the Soul Back Home. When my old edition fell open to a section called “Ways of Improving Your Journeying,” of the twelve ways l
Ancestral Bequest (opens the original)
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Dear Fellow Dreamer,Last week my father visited me in a dream. It’s happened a few times since he died in 2020. Next came an unexpected arrival.But before I tell you about those things, I hope you’ve been having a lovely summer. It’s been over a month since I last wrote, and in that period so many issues in our world have been calling for our attention, care, and conscious action—for the living beings on this planet now and in the generations to come. Yet even in tumultuous times, here on Earth
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