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January, 2012
In this year of pending changes, collectively, spiritually, and individually, it seems that nature has chosen to make a statement. Weather has been far form normal it most places across the US. I believe 2012 is the year of awakening. Of grand inner growth and awareness of what is outside, the world in which we…
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Sense
Through images and words, the grains of fractured sand held in the open hand become a world and a universe. What that existence entails is a decision to be made, and the act of not making a decision, grants power to another system or process, and that choice has to be lived with. Who better…
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Coming Back
When I pass from this life, this present reality, and it is my time to return, it is here, this land, this space I will make home within. Beneath the canopy of naked limbs and the crisp blue background, I will wander for the rest of time.
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Calling
Lake Superior is calling form beneath greyed and washed out sky, the struggle of winter to take the reins of season from autumn.
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Time and No-Time
Rivers flow from a source toward some destination, often into a larger collective of water. Some flow into and merge with other rivers, some flow to destinations we do not see, and cannot ever know, such as the Brule River falling into the Devil’s Kettle. Time flows into time and back into itself. Time is…
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The End Becomes the Beginning
On this evening of one time period giving birth to another, one cannot help but to reflect back on all that has happened, and the impact these events have on each individually and collectively. What will the new time bring? We will continue to suffer, again individually and collectively? Will our spirit fight through the…
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Tree
In the absence of time and place, compassion takes control and guides the way further down the path. The tree taken from the land has become a symbol wrapped in white lights and ornate glass painted bulbs. The tree spins and dances beneath the rising moon and in that darkness leaving here, I run into…
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Birth and Death
There is a simple way to become a buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not…
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Music
The fragmented mind scattered across the landscape slows when the clouds depart and cold settles upon everything. There is music in that silence that each piece hears, ingests, and in turn emits a radiant light.
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Cold
In the season of death when cold descends from out there to here, when thoughts and focus become singular, I feel the most alive.