The space between

The space between

Dawn peeks through my window to see if I'm awake, pink like a rose mid-bloom. The house is hushed. Beyond, lagoon waters tentatively taste sand and rock; a seagull cries. The wind hums and growls around a window down the hall. And there -- do you hear it? The space between sounds shelters Silence: the [...]

Open the clutched hand

Open the clutched hand

Open the clutched hand weary and veined - you’ve been holding on to yourself - fall into safety - flow from stillness - the pond’s reflection is your grail - attract what you already have become who you already are - On the vast plain of awareness, sun and stars mirror the ecstasy of being. [...]

On silence

On silence

Listen. The tick of the clock the call that doesn't come the refrigerator's hum clack stop the unsaid word. It is not silence we fear but the meaning we give it. Silence is a container we fill with worry fear anxiety. An imagined reality we create perhaps to prepare for the worst. Silence is a [...]

let go

let go

Release. let go. the widest vantage point has no fixed handrail. Take the backward step turn into another world. another culture, country, life. each step a wider view. set down baggage as you go. the journey is too long to carry it all. the path to enlightenment is littered with the debris of worthless trinkets [...]