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, a footrest, and a decor adornment. It’s about 7 inches high and 8 inches in dimeter, very primitive with three legs. I’ve always noticed the circles within the top surface, […]
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 was only being without knowing. They didn’t leave because of shame or guilt but because of curiosity and the desire to know the real. They have been differentiating from that […]
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 my power to avoid, but nature has no real boundaries, so it’s possible we get some in our diet. I’m sorry for the depleted soil, for the polluted water. Please […]
Don’t Let your Resistances Eclipse Who You Really Are
Mending The World
I posted this on a different blog site December 8, 2013. I thought it was worth revisiting. I’ve noticed a curious thing since Nelson Mandela’s death three days ago— astounding grace occurring for both my friends and myself. It’s the kind of grace that doesn’t necessarily make “things” better but rather opens the clouds of […]
Songs of Freedom
“Nothing, absolutely nothing, can sterilize spiritual creativity so long as a man is—and realizes himself to be—free. Only the loss of freedom, or of the consciousness of freedom, can sterilize a creative spirit.” Mircea EliadeI hear Bob Marley singing: “Old pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships… But my hand was […]
The Greater Mind is Ever Present
I am walking through our local health food market without a list, feeling for what I will want to eat in the next few days. A woman whom I don’t know passes me and says, “I saw you and thought you were Ann Bancroft. But then I thought, no that can’t be, she’s, you know.” […]
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