Because of Pandemic, Back to the Basics
Back to basics, then, to when sound was crickets, or surf, or the huffff of a startled deer in the edge of the woods, or [...]
Back to basics, then, to when sound was crickets, or surf, or the huffff of a startled deer in the edge of the woods, or [...]
I speak, till you cry out "Partial! Only Partial!" Then I go silent. I paint, until you say "One, only one of the limitless possible," [...]
Keep Walking, by Rumi, Translation by Coleman Barks Keep walking. Though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's [...]
I am a wave in love with the sea. I am the ocean. Oh! That wave’s waving at me! I am a wave, moving [...]
Last Night 1:30 a.m., alone, outside, in the full moon’s light, in this beloved forest, I gaze and gaze into [...]
Gary Snyder at Columbia University in 2007, via wikimedia, CC2.0 “A great poet does not express his or her self, he expresses all [...]
Kabir, 1825 Painting of Kabir Weaving, Public Domain Kabir was a mystic and poet born in India around 1398. As an infant, he [...]
First Flowers The first flowers I remember (though there were earlier others, to be sure, as pictures exist of me, in my Sunday best, [...]
Timeline of Ancient Writings In my years of research, I have learned that it is useful to have a timeline of "who said what" "when." [...]
On Centering The quotations are all from the book The Tao of Symbols, published in 1982 by James N. Powell “…Where [...]