Proudly Pro-Life
This may come as a shock to some readers, but ’tis the season for honesty, isn’t it? (that’s a very tiny joke at election time). So, here’s something I just…
Author: Chris Highland
Writer, teacher, freethinker, humanist celebrant, former minister and interfaith chaplain
Cemetery Walking
Halloween Week. What better time for a walk through a local cemetery! Truth be told, Carol and I seek out cemeteries for walking. I recommend it, in any season. Part…
50,000 Views!
This website reached 50,000 views today. I’m aware this doesn’t mean there have been that many actual “visitors.” That number is closer to 5000 for 2020 alone. Those who…
Leaf it Alone
A poetic reflection: We see them fall, We hear them rustle, We may even feel them brush by our face. Today, as I ate my lunch under the sycamore One…
Christian Declaration
A Declaration of Preference?: If Christians Wrote the Declaration of Independence If America was actually founded to be a “Christian Nation,” as Christian Nationalists claim, wouldn’t we expect the founding…
End of Spirituality?
This essay was originally published in my e-book, Nature is Enough (2013). Selected essays, including the one here, were posted on the Nature is Enough website. A version of the…
Blue Ridge Walk
Hues and views. Contrasts and colors. Steps to the sky in late afternoon slant of light … on the Mountains to Sea Trail.
Falling into Fall
We say it’s “Fall,” when leaves are dying. leaving the trees and descending to the dirt. I remember the Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hahn saying that a leaf is the…
