Not for a Second – Feb. 15, 2019
For sixty years, I have been forgetful every moment,But not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.Today, I recognize that I am the guest,The one the mystics talk about.I play this living music for my Host. -Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks
As Blossom Goes on as Fruit – Feb. 14, 2019
I will not die an unlived life.I will not live in fearof falling or catching fire.I choose to inhabit my days,to allow my living to open me,to loosen my heartuntil it becomes a wing,a torch, a promise.I choose to risk my significance,to live so that which came to me as seedgoes to the next as […]
Sleeping in the Forest – Feb. 8, 2019
Sleeping in the Forest I thought the earth remembered me,she took me back so tenderly,arranging her dark skirts, her pocketsfull of lichens and seeds.I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,nothing between me and the white fire of the starsbut my thoughts, and they floated light as mothsamong the branches of the […]
The Journey – Feb. 7, 2019
The Journey One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice–though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles.“Mend my life!”each voice cried.But you didn’t stop.You knew what you had to do,though the wind priedwith its stiff fingersat the very foundations,though their […]
