Apr 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
I remember watching, with morbid fascination, a reality television program that dealt with celebrity rehab from drug, alcohol, and sex addiction. It was interesting to watch the difference between the two states of awareness the addicts swung back and forth between.
read moreApr 28, 2019 | Poetry
This is a song sung to the young men who are about to enter their initiation in the Tzutujil Mayan tradition. It comes via Martin Prechtel, a teacher and artist I greatly admire.
read moreApr 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
read moreApr 19, 2019 | Poetry
it doesn’t matter
where I am on this earth
You are always in the air
all around me
and in the food and water I take inside me
and in the trees and leaves, and birds and feathers
and rocks and rainstorms
that I love so much
Apr 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
So far it’s almost as though I have no concept of what a month is. Does time even pass?” Somehow, this expansive sense of all time/no time feels a bit different than an ordinary shift from stuff to space. Are we actually in limbo between realities?
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