Faith and Courage

By John Kinyon | March 23, 2021

I want to write about faith and courage, and share with you about a particular core conflict dynamic with my wife Schena that has been quite repetitive and challenging for us over our now almost 19 years of marriage. I have grown enormously over the years learning how to truly live and apply the skills I…

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Returning Home

By John Kinyon | March 16, 2021

I’ve lately been thinking back on my childhood and remembering how I would look to Nature and Life for a mothering spiritual presence that was absent in physical form. I’m sure I didn’t think of it this way then, but as I look back I believe that’s what I was doing. It has been with…

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The Future of Democracy

By John Kinyon | March 19, 2020 |

“It is for us the living… to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which [others]… have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the…

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Care for us, and them, during these difficult times

By John Kinyon | March 17, 2020 |

As we humans deal with the global challenge of Coronavirus, I am seeing the way systems here in the U.S. are set up and functioning in ways that make the non-wealthy particularly vulnerable. The strong government support and social safety nets we had decades ago have been drastically weakened over time, and now as this…

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Searching Together For A Way Forward

By John Kinyon | March 4, 2020 |

In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost.–DANTE Have you had times in your life when things seemed dire and impossible to resolve, where every direction you could imagine had consequences you deeply didn’t want?  The mind goes round and round…

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