Monthly Archives: December 2016

He sat on a flat warm stone listening to his beard grow. Is that even possible? Surrounding him were living trees of various ages and sizes who talked among themselves through a communications network that spread out under the ground … Continue reading →

By this time of the evening, most everyone’s gathered inside their rooms gazing at the television, all hovered over by vaguely restless guardian angels. From the street, the soft warming glow emanating from their windows affirms the holiness of electricity, … Continue reading →

You woke me from a dream of absence, and as that empty world dissolved, another world of presence took its place. This other world is not elsewhere. In the dream, I was. I was living as if without You. Where … Continue reading →

An embarrassment of riches — when everything seems like poetry, which lines will you choose to write down? Writing itself is mostly a form of artifice, an intrusive edit of an otherwise perfect text — the skinned-down screenplay of an … Continue reading →

Two Ruby-throated Hummingbirds battling for territory spiraled higher and higher in their aerial contest, rising to the very tops of the tall pines, until the shadow of a large Red-tailed Hawk swept over the trees, and the Hummers darted for … Continue reading →

During the first wave, people who normally would not have noticed such things began to observe how they were chronically alternating between hope and fear in reactive and often desperate efforts to confirm and defend some illusory image they had … Continue reading →

This perfect way of being with you knows no true obstacle, once we accept that we are being lived exactly as we are, with no need for any struggle to become what that already is — what we already are. … Continue reading →

She asked: “What does love mean to men?” I replied: There is no such thing as “men”. People can only answer for themselves, and so the answer they provide will be their current subjective interpretation on the concept of love. … Continue reading →

Somehow one night while I slept, my eyelids disappeared and now I must look at everything, even the insane TV program that keeps repeating over and over again. I go outside but I am still inside my head. In there … Continue reading →

There are many invisible beings who gather around us to enjoy our performance as a human in the running production called “Life On Earth”. Perhaps some of them tried their hand at it a time or two and so can … Continue reading →