On the Intimacy of Attention

On the Intimacy of Attention

Sometimes a title comes along before any other thought and becomes a stake in the ground around which the scaffolding of an outline can be built and words stretched to create shelter for an idea to germinate. So it is with the title of this piece. It came as I was...
The Medicine Is in the Making

The Medicine Is in the Making

There are three ways that I am aware making incense can work on us. The first is through using it—whether during prayer and meditation, ceremony, small daily rituals, or through memory and association as we use it to set a mood or change the feeling of a room. The...