Toward a World that Works for Everyone
July 5, 2021 You have walked as a sailor walks, breathing Deep of this ocean air, With the tread of your footsteps leaving A salt-etched memory there. ~Mary N. S. Whiteley, Salt Etching Something funny is happening as I meander toward a deeper level of what appears to be genuine emotional balance. I have […]
July 3, 2021 There is a house in me. It is empty. I empty it. Negative space: the only native emptiness there is. ~Diana Khoi Nguyen, An Empty House Is a Debt I’ve always been afraid of emptiness. No wonder I never learned to meditate. All my life, I’ve been subject to one addiction […]
July 1, 2021 Some of us are like trees that grow with a spiral grain as if prepared for the path of the spirit’s journey to the world of all souls… The dog wants to know, did you ever harm an animal, hurt any creature, did you take a life you didn’t eat? ~Linda Hogan, […]
June 30, 2021 He looks into my truthful face Beneath the rising moon, And on his balalaika He plays a lying tune. ~Helen Muckley, The Deceiver Deception can hide anywhere. I am a walking example of it, as I glide through the store and make purchases and chat with other customers or employees. I […]
June 28, 2021 I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought… We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest. ~William Butler Yeats, A Dialogue of Self and Soul Why would anyone choose to deliberately poison themselves with […]
June 27, 2021 Sometimes the lights all shining on me Other times I can barely see Lately it occurs to me What a long strange trip it’s been Truckin’ I’m a going home… Back home, sit down and patch my bones And get back truckin’ on ~ Robert Hunter, Truckin’ Those old rockers, they knew […]
June 25, 2021 The mask that burns like a violin, the mask that sings only dead languages, that loves the destruction of being put on… the mask with a sutured mouth, a moonface, with a healed gash that means harvest. A glower that hides wanting… ~Rebecca Lindenberg, Carnival On the “reopening” of California… The […]
June 23, 2021 And then the unified field, faced with its own emptiness, bent down to his chest as if to listen. ~Tom Sleigh, Stethoscope / The Unified Field You think you know people, and then look what happens. They do something you’d never expect. Here’s a conversation I’ve had more than once in […]
June 22, 2021 I sigh for the heavenly country, Where the heavenly people pass, And the sea is as quiet as a mirror Of beautiful beautiful glass. ~Stevie Smith, The Heavenly City It’s very still this morning, and I am still and calm. The June gloom fog has blessed us for days, replacing the […]
June 20, 2021 The days grow longer now… The turnabout came Unexpectedly this year, without Much faith from us, before the equinox; But we are watchful now… ~Samuel French Morse, The Days Towards Summer Solstice There is a certain peculiar tenderness to this day. It is Summer Solstice, 2021. It seems every little thing […]
June 18, 2021 Something wanders among the mountains, Something ripples along forget-me-not fields, Something cries when birds go south, Something curves its golden sandbar Like the handle of a purple sword. If I speak strangely Do not wonder: Something is looking for a castle Made of seaweed, shells and coral, Where the sea curls Under […]
June 16, 2021 Sleight of hand: A cleverly executed trick or deception [Merriam-Webster] Oh, joy! California has reopened! The lockdown is over. We can go about our normal lives now, without masks and social distancing and viewing each other with suspicion because the other person might be “unsafe,” which is how we’ve been programmed over […]
June 12, 2021 What thing unto mine ear Wouldst thou convey,—what secret thing, O wandering water ever whispering?… Thou water, O thou whispering wanderer What message dost thou bring? ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Stream’s Secret I’m starting to see trapped negative emotions as the stumbling stones in the smooth rivers of our lives. Like […]
June 10, 2021 A noiseless patient spider… It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand… Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul. […]
June 8, 2021 We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. ~Robert Frost, The Secret Sits When you get right down to it, I’m not always a nice person, despite that being my aim. Sad, but true. I was reminded of this today after discovering […]
