Monthly Archives: October 2017

I’m a mantra carried on a beggar’s tongue; each syllable is an age, an epoch, an aeon waiting in the dark for the rising of the sun, for a man or a woman, dressed all in white like a white … Continue reading →

I’ll be your foreign correspondent from the land of make believe, the one to keep you appraised of whatever is dreamed worthy of praise, who will join you in praising, who will point you to the ecstatic raising of the … Continue reading →

There are portals, shimmering gateways in our lives through which love will wander freely in and out, even while we grind our teeth in heavy sleep, unaware of the Great One leaning over us, tenderly stroking our cheek, cooling our … Continue reading →

With my whole body I’ll look down. The hard ground is the firmament, resplendent with every kind of star, planet, and moon. Who could deny that it is good?   If there is a center, it is everywhere. I bow … Continue reading →

It’s another hot and thirsty night. I sit upright in my tent, restless, listening. If I listen strong enough, I can hear the insects between the crinkled leaves, and though faint to my ears, I can hear them testifying: “Be … Continue reading →

Knowing that you won’t be reading this until tomorrow, doesn’t make writing it here that much easier for me. How’s that for an opening line? Perhaps some readers will say we are lost in each other. That would probably be … Continue reading →

Cheer or chide it, rope and ride it, applaud or boo it, show or hide it, praise or blame it — whatever it is, whenever it is, it incarnates in the guise and likeness of you, the form and free-verse … Continue reading →

A given gift, a gladdened glance, a view across the vale: misty-mellow moonshine mantras sweep the valley down to sea-sown shore, the open door to our bright core  of awe and symmetry so sweet, where wonder-winds will wander, will-less, through … Continue reading →

Oh, another rat gnawing away inside the wall. We hate to do it, it wants to live. I bait the trap with peanut butter (they can’t resist) and I wait.   Morning, and I go around to check the trap … Continue reading →

We listen to the daily reports and then discuss the “precarious state of the world” as if it were something outside of us, once or twice removed. We hover like Greek gods above our lives, only rarely descending to inhabit … Continue reading →