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Posted on September 3, 2020 1 Comment
Night. Fall. Cycles still roll round after all these years. More slowly, though, more in tune with seasons than with phases of the moon or friends. Rolling now towards that narrow gate, dark and guarded by the longer nights. I don’t wish the time away. The sun is at my back but will […]
Posted on September 2, 2020 Leave a Comment
Superabundance Some love eats the pomegranate seeds, knowing they constitute a contract signed in red. Some love, likewise, bites the apple. Acts of will that initiate, propel. Some love spills out of the loving cup, abundance, unexpected and more than enough. Act of generation, regeneration, grace. Six months into isolation, I know […]
Posted on September 1, 2020 Leave a Comment
Interference The wind is from the north today, fresh and cool, summer nearly done. This wind usually brings a back-to-school clarity. I can’t think, though. Lots of us can’t think right now. Some white noise, some steady, pattern- breaking buzz interferes. The world is shaking like a rattle. The young ones shake it […]
Posted on August 31, 2020 Leave a Comment
Meditations on the Anahata Chakra 8 tell me a time I ask the kids when you’ve felt bliss too many need the word defined the rest remember drugs that brought them somewhere like but left them hungry angry numb a few who never heard of Doors think: chance of […]
Posted on August 30, 2020 Leave a Comment
Meditations on the Anahata Chakra 7 an antelope carries a whole high-wire act of gods and goddesses through the heart here I’ve never seen an antelope outside a documentary or a zoo but something restless? reckless? essentially innocent? chasing visions all over the map? enchanted by an urgent scent just over the […]
Posted on August 29, 2020 Leave a Comment
Time of Singing Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing is come. Song of Songs The one has come for our girl, she who was born a woman […]
Posted on August 28, 2020 1 Comment
Meditations on the Anahata Chakra 6 inside the lotus of the heart is a lotus another lotus made of bliss inside of it is the sun cupping the moon cupping fire cupping radiance cupping Self Self sitting blissfully under the wish-fulfilling tree […]
Posted on August 27, 2020 Leave a Comment
Special Delivery The day is talking, wind shifting, August on the run. It’s ok that time speeds up. I know now how to sit inside the maelstrom without opinion or request. If the mercurial compels me to carry messages of coming storms, of hope, take them with a grain of salt. I don’t […]
Posted on August 26, 2020 Leave a Comment
Change Some ritual once marked this point in time, to slow it down, stop it even. step through that absence into the sacred. All backwards. We change and change to let the sacred step into us (oh, the plural). I mean me, step into me, into this august day, into my metamorphic body, […]
Posted on August 25, 2020 2 Comments
Letters for Astrid Dear Astrid, Two things happened so far this morning. A mouse fell in the pool, swam to a ladder, sat on the top rung and wondered what to do. Tom helped it out. He’ll help you, too, when you are here. And, in the park, a flock of geese flew […]
Sherry Robbins 