mark nepo – Find Your Middle Ground

by Val T Boyko September 22, 2025 15

Seasons

Our soul – with its insistence on finding the still point from which it keeps rising – carries us through theContinue Reading

by Val T Boyko August 25, 2025 15

“We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear,Continue Reading

by Val T Boyko February 8, 2024 27

I was drawn towards these words from Mark Nepo: “No matter how we feel in any one moment, we areContinue Reading

by Val T Boyko May 23, 2023 27

“As soon as we are born, we are part of an endless search that really goes nowhere. But it’s theContinue Reading

by Val T Boyko April 9, 2022 28

“We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear,Continue Reading

by Val T Boyko March 28, 2021 11

The things that matter are unfinished paintings that everyone creates and no one owns. Rather we are created each timeContinue Reading

by Val T Boyko August 20, 2018 27

Having loved enough and lost enough, I’m no longer searching just opening, no longer trying to make sense of painContinue Reading

by Val T Boyko August 18, 2018 21

LONG WAY HOME I want to have a conversation that we can return to without conclusion, one that lasts forContinue Reading

by Val T Boyko January 31, 2018 34

AN OPEN HAND The mind is not a storeroom with mirrors where we retreat to convince ourselves that we exist.Continue Reading

by Val T Boyko January 23, 2018 27

TO GLOW Like light in the sun spilling out of the sun, the spirit within beams its way through allContinue Reading

by Val T Boyko July 21, 2017 45

“We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear,Continue Reading

by Val T Boyko February 15, 2017 18

Let no one keep you from your journey, no rabbi or priest, no mother who wants you to dig forContinue Reading