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Gazing at Light

In the days following my writing about my granddaughter’s wonder, an image came back to me with some insistence – a memory from over 14...

Gazing at Rain

Six months into this world, her eyes widen and fix on the sight of heavy rain falling in front of her.  What is this?  No...

The Importance of Friends

I have recently been reflecting on and writing about my experiences during the pandemic – ways in which it pushed me to a sense of...

The Chair

The Chair – a teaching on Emptiness (thank you, Prapto)   The chair is not one. The chair is many parts. The parts are made...

Falling

Sparrows gather in the roses, companionable and comfortable among thorns and perfume petals.   A longhorn beetle sensitively explores with antenna, legs, and mouth parts,...

Patterns

Swifts are writing in the sky again, flinging their strength, agility, and fragility across the vast page. I can’t read swift. I imagine it’s about...

Home in the Unknown

It is now a year since I wrote my first post on the theme of At The Edge.  Last month I presented the poems from...

The Edge of Change

I attend a weekly Qigong class.  Qigong has become seamlessly interwoven into my other practices of Buddhist meditation and Amerta movement to enable me to...

Thistle Heart

At the edge of the path, rising up from cracked, dry ground, a musk thistle is calling. As is my habit, I stop for a...

Entanglement

The Edge of Entanglement Entanglement The Joy of Entanglement   I step into the place at the edge of the woods and climb up into...