On May 23, my sweet friend Marja departed from this life. She was courageous, graceful, thoughtful and humble. A deeply spiritual woman–mother, sister, daughter, wife, friend. She let go gradually and, in the process, she brought together a community. She planned her own memorial service which included a farewell letter to all who were assembled [...]
Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
“Nameless now…”
Posted in Friends, Inspiration, Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry on June 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Including stealth…”
Posted in Listening, Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Yoga on March 31, 2010 | 9 Comments »
In this sacred time…Passover, Easter Week, Spring at hand…I am fasting and spending more time on my mat and more time on my cushion in meditation. It is Retreat Week at Yoga School. We gather on Sunday for three hours and then attend two Hatha classes and two meditations daily during the rest of the [...]
“Something about now…”
Posted in Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Prayers, Wholeness on March 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“Now winter, the winter I am writing about begins to ease. And what if anything has been determined, selected, nailed down? This is the lesson of age–events pass, things change, trauma fades, good fortune rises, fades, rises again but different. Whereas what happens when one is twenty, as I remember it, happens forever. I have [...]
“All but hidden in a tangle…”
Posted in Friends, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, WS Merwin on October 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
INTO OCTOBER These must be the colors of returning the leaves darkened now but staying on into the bronzed morning among the seed heads and the dry stems and the umbers of October the secret season that appears on its own a recognition without sound long after the day when I stood in its light [...]
“Here at this moment…”
Posted in Dad, Family, Photography, Poems, Poetry, WS Merwin on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The two Zen Masters in my life sharing a moment and some Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Snacks. My father and my grandson. Both so completely in the present. Both entirely captivated by the here and now. Each living his own koan practice. My father posits, “When did I get here?” And, “How long will I stay?” [...]
“Who discovered zero…”
Posted in Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, WS Merwin on May 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
LAKE SHORE IN HALF LIGHT There is a question I want to ask and I can’t remember it I keep trying to I know it is the same question it has always been in fact I seem to know almost everything about it all that reminds me of it leading to the lake shore at [...]
“About the heart…”
Posted in Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, WS Merwin on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
TO THIS MAY They know so much more now about the heart we are told but the world still seems to come one at a time one day one year one season and here it is spring once more with its birds nesting in the holes in the walls its morning finding the first time [...]
“Not doing…”
Posted in Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, William Stafford on March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Woke up to fog. Beautiful, soft, mysterious…A way of being… NOTICE WHAT THIS POEM IS NOT DOING The light along the hills in the morning comes down slowly, naming the trees white, then coasting the ground for stones to nominate. Notice what this poem is not doing. A house, a house, a barn, the old [...]
“The light of reason…”
Posted in Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
At daybreak, the Pileated Woodpecker gores the locust tree behind the shed. It’s barely above zero and snowing tiny cold crystals. I watch and count the male cardinals. Nine, I think. Towhees, rosy finches, goldfinches, chicadees, titmice…all ravenous, patiently waiting. The driveway is a sheet of ice under fresh snow. Yesterday, I watched the Sharp-Shinned [...]
“This heaven…”
Posted in Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, WS Merwin on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
JUST THIS When I think of the patience I have had back in the dark before I remember or knew it was night until the light came all at once at the speed it was born to with all the time in the world to fly through not concerned about ever arriving and then the [...]
