I woke before an alarm, like a shorebird stepping in before the wave. That’s more natural: a piper is never caught by the curl. Those winged fingers flit him skyward if the crash and roil of the sea comes too close. He lives on the waters: not in them. He eats what the sea has offered, running along the …
After the movie ended, I sat for a moment. I imagined a moon rising behind the clouds, so that the weather’s back was lit all silver, while below the rain fell easily down. Nothing easier than letting go, from a great height, and being received, at sea level. That was not what I thought. That is what I …
Finally. This morning, March 31st, marks the beginning of an eight-month daily practice of yoga asana, meditation and spiritual study, in preparation for an even more intensive certification program to attain teacher status. I have walked along any number of similar roads, most often to some form of completion, as they led on to bigger ways or to smaller, more …
entre lágrima e sal seca sal, sol que seca entre chuva e a mão horas, memórias que dá a lágrima como chuva cai cámera lenta, amor ví o rosto de espelho na sua joía líquida descendo como raío doa sal, olho que olha de luz de dor de benção que faz fechar as mãos …
Why did you reflexively contract when you read that title? Does it go back to the conservative's 70s sound-bite, "tree huggers", a term used (as usual) not to increase knowledge and understanding, but to ridicule and demean, the fear-response of a bullying child? Were you tainted by the bully's threat? Or does it touch on …
Sometimes the easy way is quite the poorest way, however you or others might convince you otherwise.
This morning, the sun rose and carried nothing in its hand but light.
hold it gently in my hand, that my attention not disturb it the mind is a dry riverbed; it drinks the sound of water a dream is dispelled by a voice; a sudden flash of bedroom lights causes the lovers to pull apart, ashamed of their beauty a flower that is plucked can be …
When you travel to a tourist destination, you see what you pay for, and what those who are selling rest wish you to see: in the case of Gulf coast Florida, there are miles of sand, comfortable and maintenance-free accommodations, food at the end of a short walk and at the sliding edge of your …
It doesn't matter the palette, where colors live, the brush can explore; where the brush explores, the canvas blooms; where paint dries, the globe is tasted, interpreted, and offered to whomever would receive it. So, tonight we are in the southern States, in easy reach of some of the tastier kitchen paints. Tonight's menu: Caribbean …
The moon is overhead and filling every night, so bright the world can't sleep, but rolls from dusk to dawn, trees and human objects limned by its smiling sight; into its stillness a single person sails, his water the blue-lit road and ship his own two heels. Solitude the hull's name, it move at peace, …
a river doesn’t practice how to flow it lets go from the instant it was born and falls into the arms of its bed its being wells up against what you or I would call an obstacle and melts around it if you think you are dammed up, well ask your breath for a word …