Ernie Thayer

We hear a lot about “oneness”, and it sometimes seems like some out-of-reach ‘spiritual’ experience. I suspect: Love is how a human heart experiences the oneness of everything.

If death means anything, it means the ending of everything worldly – life of the body, mental life, stories, possessions, attachments, relationships, past, future – all of it, absolutely. And this is happening to many of us already, before the body wears out, because our fellows and our poor earth need us to die in […]

I was laughing at myself this morning because I caught some silly thinking going on in my head while I was making tea. I was thinking about what might happen to Holly (my dear wife) if I died, and what would happen to me if Holly died. The scenarios ran to such silly lengths that […]

Do you ever find yourself wrestling an old demon, and for no particular reason?

Holly & I just returned from 6 weeks in Mexico – warm beaches, the extraordinary colors of the sea, the love of my woman, new friends and old, playing at water sports and, not least, great eats! It was delightful. Yet more than any of this, there was that abiding peace.