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Sesshin* (Touching the Heart-Mind)
Yesterday, O Joy Whose body is here sitting? What matter that pain?Today, Why are we doing this anyway?Tomorrow. No idea can foretell * A
We’re All Going To Die
I ran into a meditation friend at the market today. We talked briefly about our last group meditation and then she said she had to
“Spiritual Experiences”
My friend invited me to the Unitarian Church service in which she was leading the discussion—“spiritual experiences.” During the decade 1990’s I experienced many “spiritual
Raven Medicine Epiphany
A wild rabbit has been nibbling at the weeds at my front porch. Soon, I thought, the meager winter fare will be gone, most of
Ancestors of the Future
We are the ancestors of the future, holding out this little wild bouquet of humaneness, battered by the greed and soullessness of these dark times.
Trust your Clairs for a New Timeline
‘Clair’ comes from the French meaning ‘clear.’ Clairvoyance means clear vision. Clairaudience means clear hearing. Clairsentience is clear feeling, which is often comprehended as
All the little ways we support each other’s smallness
Years ago, I was having a health issue and I decided to stop eating sugar, having read a lot about how sugar is very unhealthful
Negative Space
The little wooden stool that my friend gave me about 25 years ago has played various roles in my home. It’s been a plant stand,
Time to put away childish things
When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror…
Breathing for the Body of Humanity
Early morning in that liminal space between sleep and waking. A light appears before me and inside of me, at my forehead. The light takes form and I see Tinkerbell from Peter Pan…
That Which Trumps Mercury Retrograde
Too bad the word trump is so overused nowadays, because it’s a useful word. In the Tarot card system there are two levels, the minor arcana symbolizing the ins and outs of worldly concerns…
On the Heels of the Day of At-one-ment
In the beginning human beings lived in a participation mystique with all of nature. About 6,000 years ago they left that garden within which there
Letter to my Immune System
Dear Immune system, I’m sorry for the toxins in the air we breathe. I’m sorry for the genetically modified foods that I do everything in