Reclaiming the Wisdom

Incredible thanks to Joanna Macy, all her co-teachers, and the amazing women who took part in the the six-day retreat “Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of All Buddhas” via Spirit Rock. Please check out workthatreconnects.org or look on Facebook for Work...

Refuge

I take refuge in the whiteboard in my body   the blank page where I gently wipe clean all the lovely thoughts and painful stories   where the pastel shades and violent hues of sensation and emotion show their colours and leave no trace   where I trust...

Have you heard?

Have you heard the news? Listen to the leaves, they’ll tell you – they’re excited in their patient, rooted thrumming   they murmur in the night whispering delight over sleeping feathers and all who stalk and scamper under the moon.   Have...

Percussive

Acolyte of mountainsshe learned much from their strength,the way their heightlooms from unseen depth,play of light and shadeon sloped canvas,turnings of dayand season. Today her feet thumpto pound a new staccato,pushing against what is solidwith springtime...

Semaphore

So actually, God,who does not existthe way the wordwould suggest,not a singular entitybut a wild multiplicitycrystallizedin fluid oneness, anyhow this God(infinitely beyond personality,wearing this wordlike a ballcapjust to satisfy this pen) is trying to catch your...