DW's Blog
Living in the Threshold: The Sacred Art of Liminal Space
by DW Green — October 1, 2025
“In the end, perhaps all of life is liminal—a threshold between birth and death, a crossing between mystery and mystery. “
There’s a word that carries within its very syllables the essence of what it describes: liminal. Soft and luminous, it flows off the tongue like water over stones, opening the mind to possibilities that exist only in the spaces between certainties. To speak of liminal space is to acknowledge those mysterious thresholds where transformation lives, where one thing becomes another, where the familiar dissolves into the unknown.
The Courage of the Open Sea
Picture the great seafarers of centuries past—Columbus, Magellan, the countless unnamed sailors who pointed their vessels toward horizons that promised either glory or oblivion. These explorers lived in the ultimate liminal space: the vast, trackless ocean that stretched between the known shores of home and the theoretical coastlines of new worlds. For months at a time, they existed in pure threshold, suspended between departure and arrival, between the familiar and the unimaginable
Their ships became floating islands of in-betweenness, carrying them through waters that appeared on no map, guided only by stars and in...
read moreHarbingers of Autumn: Finding Balance in the Fall Equinox
by DW Green — September 24, 2025
“The equinox is not just an astronomical event but an invitation to align yourself with the deeper rhythms that govern all growth, all healing, and all wisdom. “
As the fall equinox arrives, the world around us naturally shifts into balance. Day and night stand in perfect harmony, reminding us of the beauty of equilibrium. This seasonal turning point invites reflection, release, and renewal — a chance to let go of what no longer serves us and prepare for the months ahead with clarity and intention. Just as the trees release their leaves, we too can embrace this time as an opportunity to simplify and realign.
NATURE’S PERFECT MATHEMATICS
The autumn equinox represents one of nature’s most elegant demonstrations of cosmic balance. On this day, our planet tilts neither toward nor away from the sun, creating nearly equal portions of light and darkness across the globe. This astronomical precision offers us a profound metaphor: even in a world that often feels chaotic and unpredictable, there are still moments of perfect equilibrium waiting to be recognized and honored.
The word “equinox” itself comes from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), literally meaning “equal ...
read moreThe Practice of Unveiling: How Giving Reveals Our Inexhaustible Nature
by DW Green — September 17, 2025
“This practice of giving as unveiling directly challenges one of the most persistent illusions of human experience: scarcity.”
RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIPS
A single act of giving has a value beyond what we can imagine. So much of the spiritual path is expressed and realized in giving: love, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity; letting go of grasping, aversion, and delusion… that is why the Buddha said that if we know, as he did, the power of giving, we would not let a single meal pass without sharing some of it.
I hadn’t ever thought about the deeper mechanics of this teaching before. What if the Buddha’s emphasis on constant sharing wasn’t really about the food at all? What if it was about something far more profound—the practice of discovering our own inexhaustible nature?
THE PARADOX OF POSSESSION
There’s an ancient spiritual paradox worth exploring: only what one possesses can one give away. On the surface, this seems obvious. You can’t hand over money you don’t have or share food from an empty cupboard. But when we move beyond the material realm, this truth reveals layers of meaning that can transform how we understand both givi...
read moreWhat 75 Years Taught Me About Shakespeare’s Most Puzzling Quote
by DW Green — September 11, 2025
“Shakespeare knew something profound about the human condition:
our experience of life is shaped not by what happens to us, but by how our minds engage with what happens.”
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
For most of my life, this line from Hamlet puzzled me. It seemed almost dismissive of real hardship, as if Shakespeare was suggesting we could just think our way out of genuine pain and loss. How could someone say that about divorce, death, illness, or any of the inevitable struggles that come with being human?
But after 75 years of living—75 years of testing this idea against real experience—I can say with certainty that the quote is true. Not in some superficial “positive thinking” way, but in a much deeper, more practical sense that took decades to understand.
WHEN ANCIENT WISDOM MEETS PRESENT MOMENT
This morning I encountered a teaching from Buddhist teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo that suddenly made Shakespeare’s insight crystal clear. She spoke about “present moment, wonderful moment” and explained something profound: “There’s a certain amount of pain that we’re all going to have in ...read more
The Anti-Cracker Barrel: How Dorothy Lane Market Proves Authentic Heritage Beats Manufactured Nostalgia
by DW Green — September 3, 2025
“While chains race to the bottom with processed convenience, DLM continues to elevate what a grocery shopping experience can be.”
The Hidden Cost of Fear: Why Certainty is the Enemy of Innovation
by DW Green — August 28, 2025
“The path forward requires acknowledging a fundamental truth: in a world
of accelerating change, the biggest risk is often taking no risk at all. The
greatest failure is often the failure to try.”
The Ripple That Follows the Stone
by DW Green — August 20, 2025
“True enthusiasm emerges from a kind of sacred surrender – when we stop trying to manufacture meaning and instead allow ourselves to be touched by what is already present.”
The Seamless Flower: How Nature Dissolves Our Conceptual Boundaries
by DW Green — August 13, 2025
“The flower doesn’t struggle with being both beautiful and medicinal. It doesn’t
wonder if it should focus on aesthetics or healing. It simply expresses its
complete nature moment by moment, allowing all its qualities to emerge
naturally from its essential being.”
The Beauty of Dust: When Ordinary Becomes Sacred
by DW Green — August 6, 2025
“The practice… might simply be staying open to the possibility that the next
moment of beauty is always just one relaxed breath away.”
edge of a piece of furniture, lay a delicate wave of dust. Not the kind that makes you reach for a cloth, but a gentle accumulation that caught the afternoon light just so. For a moment, it was genuinely beautiful.This wasn’t a poetic stretch or an attempt to find meaning where none existed. In that instant of true seeing, the dust simply was beautiful – as real and undeniable as any sunset or flower that might typically earn that description.WHEN THE ORDINARY REVEALS ITSELFThese moments of spontaneous beauty don’t announce themselves. They emerge when we’re not trying to find them, when our usual filters drop away for just an instant. One moment you’re moving through your day on autopilot, the next moment a wave of dust becomes a small miracle.It’s the same phenomenon that makes us suddenly notice the way light moves across a wall, or how a stranger’s laugh carries a particular music, or how the pattern of raindrops on glass creates its own fleeting ...read more
The Archaic Mystery of Music
by DW Green — July 30, 2025
“Music, I realized that evening, is one of grief’s most generous companions.”
