I started looking at things

which is not to say I see because seeing is different than looking seeing is what we are born with, most of us, and not something that has required any effort on our part looking is effortful we are called to action to attention when we are called to look so I started...

morning by some reckoning

It is in my world for sleep will not return. 1am. the moon soon full rests lazily just outside my window I can see it there when I turn to the right. and to the left the glow of my phone just set there having confirmed my wakefulness at this hour the poison...

Samhein~

Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or “darker-half” of the year. Traditionally held November 1, the astrological date this year is November 7.  Synchronistic, I believe. ...

48 hours~

Some are flying. Some driving. Some planning to walk more, and some carpooling. Soon, 10 real live people will be here with me. What are their expectations? What have they packed into their luggage alongside warm sweatshirt and favorite paintbrush? Whose voice is...

new moon~

Scorpio is often described as the secret keeper. This negative association has a positive interpretation that holds better truth; it is a privacy it seeks and establishes, so as to more deeply spend time with a knowingness or new truth it needs to test out, not a...

A picture show: opportunity to continuously reengage

I ran into Merton again Just as I am over him I turn a life corner and there he is reentering my line of sight I am transported once again seeing through eyes that saw so well the discongruent discordant yet harmonious pull of life in all its guises he a monk activist...