Comfort Taken from What is Given
I imagine this scene, a snapshot of any ordinary point in time, perhaps not meaningful to anyone else,...
Giants
I walked in the empty fieldsand fell before the giants. Holding up the winter skytheir gaze met with...
Poem – Awakened
Scattered wisps of cloudsgive way to the first sunrise. Peaking over the horizon,shoreline rocks absorb each ray. Newly...
Essay – Rebirth in Alaska
Introduction The experiences and premise of this essay are from a 2007 expedition to Alaska through the guiding...
Home is our True Being
Home is not just where you live and return each evening. Home is that place we hold close...
Good morning from Leroy and Vinny
Looking at the calendar, over a month has passed since my last post here. Where does the time...
Poem – 92nd and Madison
I look down from the roof over Madison Ave and watch people enter and emerge from yellow streetlights,...
Poem – Shadows
Thoughts and memories buried deep in our minds originating from time so long ago and across vast distances...
Poem – Morning Sky and Birds
Early morning walk to the empty fields and the blue sky filled with birds. Wind through the trees...
Finding Calm and Peace
Finding calm and peace in this world, a challenge, a frustrating challenge. But outside that door or window,...
Poem – Fragile
Moving through empty space, living within the void at the mercy of science and gravity our feet hold...
How you can use your camera to get closer to Zen
A short article Tricycle (The Buddhist Review) on photography and finding your zen, inner peace. https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/zen-photography/
Poem – Origins
I watch an airplane across the evening sky, diminishing light as the sun is leaving. Still trees reach...
Poem – Everywhere
The previous day bathed us in winter light as the sea sang us to sleep. Today we slowly...
Poem – Until Nothing
As concrete melts into dirt and grass and skyscrapers become pine trees, I fall into the snow and...