This is a collection of fifty reflections or poems about various aspects of life. What began as a personal journey of self-discovery and self-understanding in the privacy and quiet of the author’s inner spaces developed into a series of more public and hopefully universally relevant interpretations of our common humanity.

Themes include affirmation, choices, ecstasy, freedom, healing, hurdles, integration, nature, re-energizing self, relationships, self-worth, today, truth, and the oneness of humankind.

The unifying theme of this work is that we all are one. The Waters of the Womb are one. We are all hopelessly inter-connected and inter-dependent, like it or not, accept it or not, ignore it or not, curse it or not. And perhaps the most essential key to our salvation — any way one cares to define salvation, in religious terms or not, and whether referring to an individual or a society or the human species — perhaps the most essential key to our salvation lies in remembering and living only this. We all are one. The waters of the womb are one. An under-appreciated concept this, and perhaps the most compelling reason to read Reflections on Life.

View calligraphic interpretations of some of the Reflections