No coming, no going, No after, no before… I hold you close to me, I release you to be so free, Because I am in you, and you are in me… Because I am in you, and you are in me… – PLUM VILLAGE CHANT – Lately, there are conversations of death around me. [...]
Archive for the ‘Kinetic Learning’ Category
“A little breathing music…”
Posted in Family, Friends, Inspiration, Kinetic Learning, Listening, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Zen on March 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s time to talk about the amazing women in my life. This is Aanya. We met when I was 22 years old. She was 44. She lived with her three children at the end of Meadowlark Lane in Corrales, NM. Aanya: dancer, weaver of community, activist, lover and learner…a true inspiration. My suburban upbringing was [...]
“You’re a genius all the time…”
Posted in Dialogue, Giac Thanh, Inspiration, Kerouac, Kinetic Learning, Language, Listening, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems on March 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
…is number 29 on Jack Kerouac’s list titled Belief and Technique for Modern Prose. Number 8 is: “Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.” Here are a few more… 24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge 25. Write for the world to read and see [...]
Niggling Thoughts
Posted in Dialogue, Inspiration, Kinetic Learning, Language, Listening, Neural Pathways, Photography, Poems, Spirituality, Wholeness on March 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Niggling thoughts are the ones that hiccup out loud in the circumspect library. Niggling thoughts chase the tail of that last sentence and never catch up Niggling thoughts whisper inaudibly when they interrupt… Niggling thoughts are the intermittent itch Under my scalp of incompletions. Niggling thoughts wake me up– like hives in my blood stream. [...]
Bamboo Teaching
Posted in Dialogue, Inspiration, Kinetic Learning, Listening, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Spirituality, Wholeness on March 1, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It’s winter and the bamboo continues to grow. It’s close to the ceiling and very green. Relentless in its quest for sunlight. Patient. Stalwart. Graceful. Elegant. No need for soil; just water and some stones. A simple economy. Such flexibility and willingness…strength of a quiet sort. No flowers, just shades of green tinged with yellow. [...]
