Charlie Van Dyke
By Russ Hill

A few weeks ago I went on a horseback adventure through one of the most remote areas of this country.

I set out on a journey to the Supai Village deep within the Grand Canyon.

The isolated village is home to some of the most dramatic waterfalls in the world.

I traveled with a group of teenagers that I volunteer with. We packed fi... read more
Charlie Van Dyke
Seeds
Posted August 30, 2011 by Charlie Van Dyke in Small Bites
~Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant..~... read more
Charlie Van Dyke
By Marya Hornbacher, Special to CNN

(CNN) - Kicked back with his boots on the table at the head of the smoke-dense room, the meeting's leader banged his fist and bellowed, “By the grace of this program and the blood of Jesus Christ, I’m sober today!”

I blinked.

This was not an auspicious beginning for the project of getting my vaguely atheistic,... read more
John Chuchman
Just Looking
Posted August 29, 2011 by John Chuchman in Meditations
I was just looking.

Seeing isn’t what I thought it was.
What I called seeing was just looking.

I didn’t see very much,
But I kept looking.
And that shifted my cognitive gears,
and there came a new moment.

The first look is a word, a name.
To me anything that is attached to words is a mental looking.
Then, I began to look with my whole bei
... read more
John Chuchman
The Key Question
Posted August 28, 2011 by John Chuchman
THE KEY QUESTION

is not what to do
but how to see.

Seeing is the most important thing,
the act of seeing.

I had to learn that it is truly an act,
an action that brings something entirely new,
a new possibility of vision,
certainty,
and knowledge.

This possibility appears during the act itself
and disappears as soon as the seeing stops.
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