While there is still time

  Duty The maple leaves that turned into flame are burning down to embers. Time to bank the fires of the year. I know you feel the darknes...

  Be Ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.  You have been stony for too many years Try something different.  Surre...

  I can so relate to this excerpt. I am an ardent lover of the mundane, it defines me like nothing else does. 😊 Maybe because I take nothin...

  Abundance By Amy Schmidt in memory of Mary Oliver It's impossible to be lonely when you're zesting an orange. Scrape the soft r...

  For my dear friend Reena, gardener, lover of gardens, creator of beauty "Indeed, to garden — even merely to be in a garden — is nothi...

  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of you...

  From 'To Begin With, The Sweetgrass' Mary Oliver II Eat bread and understand comfort. Drink water, and understand delight. Visit t...

  I felt in need of a great pilgrimage. So I sat still for three days and God came to me. Kabir, in ' Love Poems from God, Twelve S...

  The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac (Part 3) I know, you never intended to be in this world. But you're in it all the same. So why not get...

  The middle of June, and I awake to rain - gentle, persistent, enough to soak the   ground and clear   the air.   Isn't this the best k...

  Don’t Hesitate If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroy...

Am I walking a little ahead of you  so that no snake will bite your sandalled foot?  John Berger Page 44, 'And our Faces, My Heart, Brie...

Over And Over Tune   You could grow into it, that sense of living like a dog, loyal to being on your own in the fur of your skin, able to ex...

After the red Gulmohars of summer, the pink/purple/violet Bauhinias are here, announcing August. To Look at Any Thing To look...

Solar On a gray day, when the sun has been abducted, and it’s chill end-of-the-world weather, I must be the sun. I mu...

Yes It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know. ...

We thought we were beggars, we thought we had nothing at all But then when we started to lose one thing after another, Each da...

Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention , from being awake i...

Relearning The world doesn’t want to be saved. It wants to be loved. That’s how you save it.  ...

"At the end of a day, I tend to ask myself, did you contribute something beautiful to the world? Just a little be...