HEARTH
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Grandmother’s Love
And yet one word frees us from all the weight and pain in life: That word is love. Sophocles Trans. by Robert Fitzgerald I noticed a small rip in the flowery blue fabric. This caused me to look a little more closely at the quilt that I had had for about three...
RIVER – eternal presence
losing its name a river enters the sea John Sandbach I stared out of the window of the train in anticipation of the first glimmers of morning light. Along with most of the train’s passengers, I boarded in the heart of Manhattan pre-dawn and was headed to one of the...
EARTH – divine home
You are the sky and the ground. You alone the day, the night air. You are the meal that’s being brought, the flowers and their watering. You are all this. Lalla Translated by Coleman Barks The road stretched across the flat landscape like a taunt ribbon. The...
THE BROOM
Spring overall. But inside us there ’s another unity. Behind each eye here, one glowing weather. Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots. Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks The front walk is covered with...
FRANGIPANI – The World Within A Tree
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense. Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks...
RAINBOWS AND ROBINS
Timeless wisdom is always nearby.
The Park – living together
Tranquil our paths When your hand rests in mine in joy. Your voice gives life, like nectar. To see you, is more than food or drink. Egyptian Wisdom Trans. by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock As I sat on a park bench the other day, I appreciated the sound of laughter...
HIBISCUS – gentle beauty
In the hibiscus, there is a wholeness and completeness.
BIRD’S EYE VIEW
The weight of arrogance is such that no bird can fly carrying it. And the man who feels superior to others, that man cannot dance, the real dance when the soul takes God into its arms and you both fall onto your knees in gratitude, a blessed gratitude for life. St....
PALMS – grounded perspective
The great sea has set me in motion, set me adrift, moving me like a weed in a river. The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy. Uvavnuk In a recent storm of wind and rain, I watched some trees bow...
EARLY MORNING – Peaceful Benevolence
The natural graciousness of early morning gently and lovingly envelopes the earth and all beings.
SKY – forever home
Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner — what is it? if not intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming. Rainer Maria Rilke As a child, I felt the sky was home. ...
