author
, primarily of short essay
s.
He has worked as a Unitarian Universalist
minister (at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship in Bellingham, Washington
from 1960–64, and the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church
in Edmonds, Washington
amongst other communities well into the 1980s).
During this same period he taught drawing, painting, and philosophy at the Lakeside School
in Seattle. Fulghum is an accomplished painter and sculptor.
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Too much high-content information, and I get the existential willies. I keep sputtering out at intersections where life choices must be made and I either know too much or not enough. The examined life is no picnic.