solitude Archive

  • The Listening

    The Listening

    I am not writing this with the mental image of someone else reading it, which is far from how my...
  • Never Cutting the Cord of Compassion

    Never Cutting the Cord of Compassion

    Sunday morning I woke up contemplating the process of grief.  Thoughts of former loves constantly fill my mind.  When I...
  • Cut Off, Part II

    Cut Off, Part II

    The function of compassion for those who feel cut off is to return them to the whole. This is not...
  • Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Among the most excruciating suffering one can endure is social death. Where does compassion fit in?
  • The Occasional Hand

    The Occasional Hand

    There are times when we truly need far more than others can give.  People help with the tools they have...
  • Strange Loops

    Strange Loops

    In his book, I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter proposes that the essence or soul of a person can...
  • Ways of Love

    Ways of Love

    The ways of love include silence and solitude, parting and disharmony–so deep its trust in the core of light within...
  • Evening Soulitude

    Evening Soulitude

    Finding the three things that heal loneliness (sensual connection, conversation, and communion) during an evening of solitude.
  • America’s Waning Social Ties

    America’s Waning Social Ties

    Americans report fewer close friends and confidants than they did years ago. For most people, their only close confidant is...