Essay – Guides and Turning Points
How did I get here? An important question I throw into the air while reading, writing, and drinking...
Poem – Walked Across the Field
I walked across that empty field after the weeds took over and boulders fell from the darkening sky...
Poem – Here Not Here
I was there and I was not there. Letting go of reasons and questions I weaved in and...
Poem – As Years Pass
A quiet moment as the sun sets. Fields emerging from thinning snow. What is distant is near –...
On “Dualism”
I am reading the “Cultivating the Empty Field” for the second time, and also Dogen’s “Moon in a...
Poem – Valley
Another great afternoon of snowshoeing and breaking trails with a clear cold sky. The treat at the end...
Poem – Random Thoughts #2
Oak holds up the changing sky. What is beyond insanity? At what point do we lose the essence...
Poem – Random Thoughts
Across the western landscape clouds roam with scattered shadows. What beasts must I endure to find my way,...
Poem – I awoke…
I awoke after years of semi-concious sleep not in bed, or in some familiar place – in an...
Poem – Ode to Death
Ode to Death, by Hanakia Zedek I awaken in it’s arms Yet it has done me no harm...
Poem – Reflection
The calendar turns an arbitrary delineation time passing one numbered year to another. Moving through and beyond this...
Of Religion, Spirituality, and Nothing
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Whatever your belief or non-belief (to say you believe in nothing is still...
Poem – Deconstructed, part 3 (Fracture 12)
Have we met before? Perhaps on a distant planet, on the other side of the known universe. White...
From the teachings of Dongshan Liangjie…
From the teachings of Dongshan Liangjie when seeing his reflection – Just don’t seek from others, or you will be...