13 Sunday Sep 2015
A sacred hunger grows
and tonight can’t possibly be the right time
to feed it,
but wine and the Hammond organ
sure carve paths through
this wicked churchyard of a settlement.
Knock on my door in the morning,
my sight won’t be so cloudy
with delicious nostalgia,
and what sorrow erases clear vision
will lighten
with sunrise laughter.
15 Saturday Feb 2014
Posted in joy, quotations
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“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”
– Henry Miller
07 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in lovers, pain, quotations, ramblings, work
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“The lover never despairs
For a committed heart
everything is possible”
Rumi
What is it to remind people of the pain they fear by squarely facing your own?
What is it to love someone beyond the limit of their self-love and watch them turn and walk away?
Our love is only as safe as the tender skills of our lovers to love themselves are developed.
Unbounded living begins with that embrace. The profound joy of existence starts with us, the one we’re always with.
We are the best we’ve got. Better learn to be our full, exquisite selves. No other reason to be here, really. For not until we reach that free, present, loving place can we truly be loved, nor can we give the gifts each of us is here to give.
Here’s to healing ourselves.
With a nod of delight to the world, let the real work begin.
29 Wednesday Jan 2014
Posted in quotations, Uncategorized
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
Even while the earth sleeps we travel.
We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Salt, Smoke, Water and Stone 