know how to unfurl?

know how to unfurl? like the drawn-touch of a lover that uncoils, comes again and again differently the wind inhales exhales softness surrounded by bony root-me-down, know the center of the star and…


...into the new

what do you need to do to wake up from the old paradigm and be born into the new?   - Brian Shircliff    


everything

most would consider my street simple, ordinary — it’s a wonderland the sun comes, spans the sky, sets in wild color the moon a shy, unset singer leaves spurt out of dead branches grass and bugs…


what happens when i meditate

i sit down. rumble round to get comfortable. and the flow begins —     meditation, so they say ————— and all these little devils arise. one by one. a discomfort here, an idea there . . .  each one a…


DEAR VIRUS

written during the Inner Journey Zoom meeting 4/8/2020, where we always share possible topics and then follow our muse to write or doodle whatever we like -- all are welcome (18+) Dear Virus, I’ve…


love in the time of 'stay-at-home'

did Gautama / Buddha set a timer when he sat for meditation? did Jesus have an agenda when he went to the desert to pray and feel the breeze?  after all, the ancients thought the breeze was the 'holy…


LESSONS LEARNED WHILE WAITING OUT A PANDEMIC (so far)

When I sit more often and do nothing ( = meditation), I have a much better sense of my life, where I am going, what holds me back from my dreams.  And those ‘holdings back’ get loosened and melt away…


a conversation within myself…

how easy it is to feel that some myth was truly the one to follow some movie, some story, some history/herstory/theirstory, some real happening… it doesn’t matter how one defines ‘myth’… in any……


PILGRIMAGE IN A PANDEMIC

do the neighbors up the street think me strange for going a few times a day to stand under their tree? for looking up under it at the pink and blue at the birds that swim through at the…