From the Book of Time (excerpt) ~Mary Oliver VI.Count the roses, red and fluttering.Count the roses, wrinkled and salt.Each with its yellow lint at the center.Each with its honey pooled and ready.Do you have a question that can’t be answered?Do the stars frighten you by their heaviness and their endless number?Does it bother you, that …
How would you live then? by Mary Oliver What if a hundred rose-breasted grosbeaksflew in circles around your head? What ifthe mockingbird came into the house with you andbecame your advisor? What ifthe bees filled your walls with honey and allyou needed to do was ask them and they would fillthe bowl? What if the …
There is joy and an important sense of renewal in each effort to begin again. ~Sharon Salzberg It’s been a while since I’ve written here. Right after completing our first sacred century back in September, life happened in stunningly surprising and sometimes disheartening ways. It was a wondrous journey, meandering the hills of Eastern New York. And, I lament not …
Earth Touching by Thich Nhat Hanh Here is the foot of a tree.Here is an empty, quiet place. Here is a cushion. Brother, why don’t you sit down? Sit upright. Sit with solidity. Sit in peace. Don’t let your thoughts lift you up into the air. Sit so that you can really touch the Earth and be one with her. You may …
I have a magnet (pictured below) on my refrigerator that reads: Everyone, everywhere, every day is sacred. I believe this with all of my heart. And, I wonder about this word, this string of letters that elicits expectation, exultation and grace; this word that intimates that whatever, or whomever, it is attached to or associated with is something …