Category: Essays

Rising from the Fire: The Art of Transformation, by David Ulrich

Lava entering ocean. Photograph © David Ulrich

The fiery path from light to light

We’re In It Now, by Tracy Cochran

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941. Photograph by Abbie Rowe. National Archives and Records Administration

The greatest shocks can inspire the deepest wisdom

Fire Season, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Photograph by Breno Machado. Courtesy of Unsplash.com

A Sufi master looks at—and beyond—the approaching flames

Kissed by Fire, by Trebbe Johnson

Andy with tea bowl. Photograph by Trebbe Johnson

Fire Creates. Fire Cooks. Fire Kills. Fire also kisses. It kisses death from life and life from death.

Baking with Metta, by Lynda A. Archer

Photograph by Joshua Bedford. Courtesy of Unsplash.com

Lynda A. Archer

As Time Goes By, by Kent Jones

Family watching television, 1958. Photograph by Evert F. Baumgardner. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Source: National Archives and Records Administration.

The special power of classic films

The Return of the Runner, by Jim Kristofic

Edison Eskeets running into New Mexico from Arizona at Tse Bonito, New Mexico. Photograph by Jay-Lynn Bunion

An older Navajo runs for his people

The Desk, by Kenneth Krushel

Photograph by Ben Brewer for iPondr

A miracle made of wood

The Lesson, by Fred Cheney

An encounter to last a lifetime

Down the Well, by Tracy Cochran

Bellin Map of the Great Lakes. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, 1755. Native American territories are clearly delineated. Wikimedia Commons. Source: Atlas Homannianus Mathematic-Historice Delineatus, (Homann Heirs, Nuremberg), 1755

What we need is right at hand