“I think I could turn and live with animals. They do not sweat and whine about their condition. Not one is dissatisfied.” Walt Whitman It was a very small thing, watching a robin carry a twig too big for its nest. It tried once, then twice, to use it, and somehow,...
Like clouds moving in water, problems make me forget I am clear. Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when, in fact, it has no color. Amazingly, while soft and flowing, water – as ocean or lake or even as the...
“I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date! No time to say hello! Good-bye! I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!” The Mad Hatter, from Alice in Wonderland I wake clear and rested, light flooding my room. The day seems endless and free. But making coffee, I notice three...
As it does no good to harvest if we can’t eat, it does no good to act if we can’t feel. There is so much talk these days of masculine and feminine energies and how we’ve been taught to be one sided in how we engage the world. I believe most of it to be […]To...
Live in your hands and your mind will learn to bow like a root. Several years ago, while doing a poetry reading in New York City, I encountered an angry young man who had just seen a woman mugged. He was so enraged he wrote a poem on the spot. A pensive voice from...
