What makes one person   So much more important than the rest           Someone who excites you           Someone who entices you Someone who has all the qualities you're looking for    Or someone who catches you totally off guard                 Brings something new to you                       you never knew you wanted                               and now you can't live without    two versions … [Read more...]

Karma won't permit unwarranted promotion. The tests we fail this life will set the next in motion. … [Read more...]

A thin thread lies just out of reach. I noticed it yesterday when the winds came over the sea from across the iced landscape. Dangling with purpose, its motion set to keep balance with the vibration. I look out from this peak above the tree-line further up the slope passing through low-level clouds and into a charged atmosphere, a place forgetting about sea-level looking further beyond here where the spiritual and mystical are common-place and work constantly, surrounding … [Read more...]

We call the cardinal pair Carlo and Consuela. The scruffy cardinal babies, buff and almost-crimson, crests not quite triangular are Carlito and Consuelita. The squirrel with a lame back leg has a tail that always bends to the right, often belying his intended path. Nonetheless, his name is Right Turn Only. We don't name them to lay claim to them. Like parents, we name them in the hopes they'll return. … [Read more...]

She was learning about dreams studying Jung She told me If you're frightened of a bear ask yourself what message the bear is bringing The wolf's charcoal body bumped my right calf as it trotted down a pine-bordered path on a warm day in my subconscious I didn't need to ask what the wolf's message was I was just happy for the visit … [Read more...]

The truth burns inside me As though it were lies That's the thing about abuse It has its own life Your life Is its life But no one sees it Save you And you walk about All normal Until Something random happens A child cries A song plays Someone touches you Just so And the cells of your body cringe Or quail Or cower quietly As you dissolve inside Your hidden truth Exposed But only to you Wondering where does your truth lie When you've been told your truth is lies … [Read more...]

The trouble with evolving Is that it changes everything. Each step into freedom tugs at A masterpiece I built for safety -- Those pet defenses I never leave home without Lest I feel naked. Walls quiver and shake Too confined, too cramped, too stuffy Is the space that was once my refuge Threatening to leave me homeless. In the void beside the sea of the unknown I hear a calling to step in and take the ride. Okay, I say, but I'll wait here on shore 'Til the boat comes by. There … [Read more...]

Why ask Love When a thousand tiny diamonds Shine in the purple sky Misted moon shadows moaned The moment the delicate rain Whispered its sweet dream To the one red rose petal Laying next to the waterfall Easy as a goddess's languid chant Eternity drives a symphony To soar from a storm over all life's time Only asking to sit at your feet Near a blue lake … [Read more...]

Do you think the future is a linear beast, constrained within its evolution by deterministic random walks along a narrow, one-way avenue, prescribed in its identity by time's unerring quantum arrow? Think how ripples radiate, escaping from the impact of a stone upon water's fluid fabric, alike, yet different from the crystalline chaos, aroused by a kiss from that same stone, of propagating cracks through tempered safety glass. Think how roots invest the … [Read more...]

Your longing is a sweet gypsy wandering around looking for someone to sing with. Your wanting is a nomad roaming in search of grass and water for his animals. Dear friend: You may go to far away regions wherever your dream wants you to go; but remember to come back to your center, more often; Remember to come back to the center Remember to come back to the center Where the mirror can reflect your true self. Remember to come back to the center. … [Read more...]

When light plates a thing, it will, in some sense, forever be plated, forever be captured and living and spoken. How much of what we see will we also see in the afterlife? you asked. And how much can we pack to take with us? If light can be framed, it can be kept, though not the filtered kind, the bits that waffle through the kitchen window screens in foreign shapes and sentences over bagels in the breakfast nook. There is a level to the solid world that the dead … [Read more...]

After all, the memories must go somewhere When the synapse-lightning flickers out And all is dark and silent. Souls cross Lethe, Touch foot to the far shore, Touch lips to the glass And are relieved, Maybe. But physics tells us nothing is destroyed; Mass and energy transform and merge But nothing disappears. And anyone will tell you memories Are that: all energy or weighty mass A lift or press: bright wings or stone or clay. So do the faded waters cloud, or warm Or is there … [Read more...]

What is Joy but this, that I am always feeling and doing? Is it not me that is choosing? So it is this then that I will be doing, forever more Would you like to walk with me and spare a moment of yours? That I may share but a glance of what I have seen In my Return to Forever I have seen Peace and it looks like this I have felt joy and you have been there Let us remember together I have separated out the confusion and turmoil as if it were a novel that I was reading Yet, it is no … [Read more...]