How can a self-respecting butterfly be proud of her caterpillar off-spring? It bears no family resemblance. And it does nothing but gorge itself on milkweed leaves all day?
The mother Monarch doesn’t give up on her caterpillar-child, even when it attaches itself to a milkweed twig, sheds its outer skin, and shape-shifts into an even less-promising […]
Relative security and regular meals — there’s something to be said for the fishbowl-life.
But then, isn’t life more than just a bowl-to-bowl existence?
Once we sense that there’s a larger dimension to life, our fishbowl-life can quickly become small and confining.
We’re all called to escape the confines of our ego-bowl to surrender ourselves to the greater […]
Our car’s odometer clicks off less than two miles as we drive across the Golden Gate Bridge. But geologically, we’ve traveled more than 500 times that distance.
The land that is now Marin County spent millions of years as part of the Pacific Ocean basin, before drifting more than 1,000 miles to its present location across […]