Facing mortality, not an easy thing to do. Body falling apart, mind doesn’t understand… My mother struggled to accept her circumstance, sitting in the doctors office. Why doesn’t my body work as it should?, she asks. I could say, but don’t. After all she is eighty five! Who am I to say? From the deep […]
Tag Archives: Emptiness
Full Circle
Stumbling along as a young man, looking for answers, Gary Snyder appeared and plowed through my consciousness opening the fertile soil of my mind with horse and plow! I knew nothing of Zen or poetry then, only knew that his words were thunderous truth telling. Now on Cold Mountain he appears again! The fertile soil planted […]
Ashes Renew
a winter day, not the northeast winter storm! just a florida cold day, 50 degrees and cloudy. Have the fire pit burning, relieving me of 15 year old taxes and receipts that I have held onto for to long. ashes, ashes tell me your story! what doesn’t change? The smoke rises into the gray clouds […]