A series of thoughts and reflections from my daily writing practice.
The warm kiss of the sun As light breaks over the rim of the horizon Received by a smirk that flows to a smile Skin that stands on end and…
We are so linked to one another We train one another We pass on to one another All the time To accept everything And choose what I…
It's the normal moments The groggy good morning mumbles And the good nights slipping from lips as heavy as the eye lids Where we get to…
The tenderness Of pain The depths at which we go to continue it To deepen it Not wanting to and yet Carving away, deepening, strengthening,…
A good trigger A triggered moment Lays bare attachment and aversion An unveiling so to speak A buffet Of shit I don't wanna eat That I…
First lesson This body won't be as it is forever To move slow To learn slowness To allow for slowness Now No need to wait Had the first…
A sweetness To bear the unbearable To bare To the unbarable How do we do it She asked I don't know But we do
Life just isn't so separate Addressing one thing Feels like it addresses all others And not tending to another Feels like not tending to…
We are so linked to one another We train one another We pass on to one another All the time To accept everything And choose what I propagate What I carry forward To choose what I pass on Is essential May I carry forward what is wholesome And abandon that which is not May I see what I am carrying May I know what I am bringing with me And giving to others May my mind be like the Grand Canyon Yet my attention be a narrow ravine To accept everything And see it's causes To choose what I carry forward Knowing that all actions bear fruit That I and others will eat May they be mangoes and papayas May they be golden delicious apples Drizzled in honey And when it's vinegar May it just be vinegar Nothing more nothing less Just this too No problem
The width of awareness Is in proportion to the depth of concentration And vice versa To see and know This is a wide mind This is a narrow mind First hand Direct Wide experiences all sand through fingers Narrow holds fully a single grain in the palm Wide can grow more hands and experience more sand Narrow can become a magnifying glass, a microscope Wide is expansive in all directions Narrow is penetrating in one
The brightness of life Entirely dependent on how wide The aperture of experience is Independent of anything else Sun kissing my skin The thwap of boots An aspirated excited laugh Tweets of sparrows Rocks crunching under stroller wheels The lightness of relief A full breath Mmmm
Knots tighten under tension A slack line Unwinds itself