"… hope she is feeling better. Have a good night yourself." The ember of the day fading, so the small electric sparks that lead from corner to corner all the way home are now apparent, where before their minor lights were lost in the grander, warmer rays of the sun. A friend departs. The engine …
A walk through the Boston Common in the fall of 2005. Our nation was still numbed and dumbed into the facile acceptance of a war that was not a war; a police action where no one managed the police; an act of mercy where there was no mercy. The only way to follow such a …
… and so all follows water’s path, from cloud to peak, from heights to valleys, from valleys to the sea; follows through channels that life itself creates, in currents at times quickened at times slowed by degrees of its descent. The selfsame wave that rises, falls; the selfsame lightning separating droplet from the whole, sees …
Better to travel with someone who is looking for God than with someone who has found him.
Today unlike other Thanksgiving holidays I find myself alone. The day began in silence, shrouded in fog from the eastern seaboard; it passed quietly in a town whose shopdoors shut tightly against profit and house doors opened wide in favor of family; and ended in fog from the eastern seaboard, backlit in a dusty red, …
Our habit of looking backward is only matched by our desire to grow, keep growing forever, perhaps; or to look forward at the vast horizon and never see it rush toward us, not feel the edge and the bright light or the pure darkness beyond. Amazing how an event from childhood can reach into the …
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry –the best gesture of my brain …
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear not fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my …
i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of …
"I feel like an empty tornado inside with nothing to tornado about and then it starts to rain on my tornado and it rains for years…" ~ Isabela, age 10 Yesterday – or was it the day before? – winds from Alberta met winds from the Gulf, somewhere over the plains, at the heart of …
By heaven and the night star! And what shall teach thee which is the night star? The piercing star. Over every soul there is a watcher… We find ourselves through an effort of discovery. That we are all born into this life, with years of uncovering to follow, is simple, and fact. The events in …
As though an apple fell on my head I stopped what I was doing looked up Oh – it's you Sometimes a prayer is answered before the words are said; but since you were not listening you say them anyway The apple falls when the earth calls for its seed Oh, it is you And …