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Upon Turning 35: An Open Letter to Younger Men
TravelWriteSing.com —written with my 18 and 20 year old younger brothers in mind— Dear Brothers, It is not that I am much older than you or believe I have concrete answers to life’s burning questions....
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Poem: The Hallelujah Horizon
TravelWriteSing.com The Hallelujah Horizon We walk outside to enter inner worlds. There the horizon of my eyes. Here a horizon in my heart. We train each step to whisper, “Bless.” But then we run away...
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Why 2020 Was One of the Best Years of my Life
TravelWriteSing.com The view I face every morning Yesterday I caught up with a friend of twenty years. She asked me how I was doing. “Honestly,” I said, “really amazing, 2020 was one of the best years...
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At the Center of All Beauty
TravelWriteSing.com Last week I spent two days walking around Lake Atitlan’s shore from the village where I live to San Pedro, nearly halfway the 50 mi.² circumference of the lake. Part of me resisted...
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The Beautiful Life of Marcia Garcia
TravelWriteSing.com Twenty children sat around a rectangle of plastic tables and listened to the leader of their after-school youth club. It was not easy to hold these kids’ attention, but Neto had a...
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The Starlight Still Within Us
TravelWriteSing.com The Starlight Still Within Us What did we do to end up here amongst all this perishing? Have you heard what the violin says to the cello in a minor key? We are squirrels...
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I released an Audiobook! Here’s How:
TravelWriteSing.com This year I published my first audiobook. My 2019 poetry collection “All the Beloved Known Things” is now available on Audible, iBooks, and Amazon. I just released by first...
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Of the Unknowable Causality that Carried me Back to India
TravelWriteSing.com And so it was, the wheels came out of the plane with the busted tray table that the Indian kid next to me broke that together we patched with Star Wars stickers. The wheels popped...
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Two Days of Teaching with the Dalai Lama
TravelWriteSing.com Candid photo of HH from my friend Lhankpa and used with his permission Reality rhymes. Destiny dances. If you loosen your grip on life’s reins, She will lead you into your wildest...
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