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April 2011

April 12, 2011

Entering the Forest

My glasses have cracked. Ten days to repair. Without a clear way to see, what...

March 2011

March 07, 2011

The Gift and the Hole

We are each born with a gift and a hole, and given a life to...

February 2011

February 28, 2011

Peaches, Tents, and Dreams

It’s taken almost sixty years but today as the wet grass shines and the peaches...

February 21, 2011

Pakuna

—Miwok, meaning “deer jumping downhill” I’m grateful for all our ways, holding on when a...

February 14, 2011

Least Complicated

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on...

February 07, 2011

A Thousand Pools

I am awake. It wasn’t always so. It may not last for long. So let...

January 2011

January 25, 2011

Light Meeting Light

After coffee, I went quiet till a cloud parted in my mind and the light...

January 17, 2011

The Deeper Song

Years ago I wrote a song on the piano, discovered its patterns, played it over...

January 10, 2011

Covenant with Time

In silence or in crisis, we can put down the gun, bandage the wound, carry...

January 03, 2011

Quiver

In the early light, complete stillness. In the snow, two remaining leaves. At first I...

December 2010

December 27, 2010

Asking, Having, Saying

What would you ask if you had the chance? Would you trade that asking for...

December 20, 2010

What Holds Us

It seems we are asked by love or forced by experience to sit with what...

December 13, 2010

How the Divine Speaks

I tried to think about my problem but the wind from behind the cloud turned...

December 06, 2010

The Migration of Kindness

Her sister was dying of cancer, a thousand miles away. She had no way of...

November 2010

November 29, 2010

Beauty Amid Thunder

In the exhibit of scrolls from China, I am lost in a river scene when...

November 22, 2010

Skip’s Poem

Two deer, fur thickening for winter, nibble at the pines. The taller tugs at some...

October 2010

October 25, 2010

Evident

Why do I keep putting everything away? I need to be distracted by what matters,...

October 11, 2010

Authority of Being

The sun doesn’t stop shining because some are blind. And birds don’t stop singing because...

September 2010

September 27, 2010

I Have Not Forgotten

any of you. Not the long friendship we somehow broke into pieces so sharp we...

September 13, 2010

Breaking Bread

The giver is used up in the giving as rain evaporates in what it helps...

August 2010

August 23, 2010

What I Really Want to Say

If what I have can help, you can have it. Why? We are carriers not...

August 09, 2010

2 poems by Robert McDowell

Robert read two of his poems during Saturday's class: 400 Apples The Sheep That Feeds...

August 09, 2010

To Be and Belong

Let go your want for greatness and feel the tool that’s in your hand. Let...

August 02, 2010

Not According to Plan

When I drop my glasses in the airport and they are crushed in the walkway...

July 2010

July 26, 2010

Tasks

There’s the limb that came down in the last storm. And the peach tree we...

July 05, 2010

Lifting the Net

I’m a bird who’s found his way to the forest. --Po Chü-I Sitting alone in...

June 2010

June 14, 2010

Losing Yourself

We’re having lunch at the harbor, salads and tea, and Bob starts talking about losing...

May 2010

May 31, 2010

The One True World

Though it’s all one world, when we close our eyes to the outer life, we...

May 24, 2010

Centering Clay

Dig something you think might last from the earth and wedge the air from it....

May 03, 2010

Transformation

It could be the letter never answered, the one in which you declared your love...

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