What is the Hokey Pokey All About?

When I was a social worker/home visitor and got paid for playing with toddlers,....


Abundance Scooped from Abundance: Reflections on Myanmar

homily delivered today at First Parish Church of Groton There is a line from....


A Nation Being Rebuilt: My Fortnight in Myanmar (poem)

To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the....


Burma Reds (poem)

Bricks from the 9th century onward, the shape of pagodas and....


Accursed Temple of Bagan

While in the stunning Bagan region of Myanmar, the ruins of a kingdom that....


Barefoot Amid Monkey Poop in Myanmar

On Facebook, I posted the following: 777 steps up Mt. Popa, 777 steps down,....


Climbing Bagan

For three days, we are in the Bagan region, which is like walking amid a ten....


Good Morning, Inle Lake

Still quite dark, I was awakened this morning by two competing prayers. As I....


Entering Into Meditation

A few days ago we received an orientation to Burmese Vipassana meditation from....


Just Another Friday Evening: Shwedagon Pagoda

It must be the place to go on a Friday night. Old people. Young people. ....