Sunday, April 25, 2021

Walking Ahead

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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...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

You swell into survival

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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...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Joy is a function of Focus

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Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky.  Choose it at first consciously, ef...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

I’m not saying we shouldn’t be angry

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I’m not saying we shouldn’t be angry. Anger seems reasonable. But perhaps we will do what I’ve heard the Inuit do— spend the emotion on walk...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

The best is not destroyed, although forever threatened

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 The Good The good are vulnerable As any bird in flight, They do not think of safety, Are blind to possible extinction And when most vulnera...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

You must be the thing you see

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After the red Gulmohars of summer, the pink/purple/violet Bauhinias are here, announcing August. To Look at Any Thing To look...
Monday, June 8, 2020

I must be the sun

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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...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

But some bonuses, like morning

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Yes It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know. ...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Every town our home town

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Every town our home town Kaniyan Poongunranar [Sangam Period, 3rd century BC to 4th century AD] ​​"Every town our home ...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

The Cinnamon Peeler

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If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on your pillow. Your breasts and shoulders would reek y...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

We must travel on our knees

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Watching the Jet Planes Dive We must go back and find a trail on the ground back of the forest and mountain...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

We thought we were beggars, we thought we had nothing at all

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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...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

The first sign of civilization

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"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture....
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Gratitude arises from paying attention

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Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention , from being awake i...
Monday, October 7, 2019

It's not the waking, it's the rising!

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Great discovery, thanks to my friend Cavery who sees me at the entrance of Cubbon park at 7 AM on a Sunday morning, removes her headphones,...