Growing up, my parent’s had this album by Johnny Mathis, Good Night Dear Lord. I used to lay on the floor on my stomach, propped up on my elbows in front of the stereo and listen to it. This was one of my favorite songs on it – so loving and so inclusive. Barbara Streisand [...]
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One God
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Music, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged God, Oneness on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Way of Life No. 1
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Existence, Heaven, Lao Tsu, Poems on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Image by Feng Jiang Existence is beyond the power of words To define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute. In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words, Words came out of the womb of matter; And whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately [...]
The Way of Life No. 14
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Existence, Lao Tsu, Oneness, Poems on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Image by Feng Jiang What we look for beyond seeing And call the unseen, Listen for beyond hearing And call the unheard, Grasp for beyond reaching And call the withheld, Merge beyond understanding In a oneness Which does not merely rise and give light, Does not merely set and leave darkness, But forever sends forth [...]
Firefly
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, tagged Poems on March 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
[Image from the Japanese anime film: Grave of the Fireflies] This is one of my favorite children’s poems below. I borrowed a line from it just after we moved to our present home outside of Seattle. Everything had been unpacked, furniture arranged, pictures hung. I sat down to write from that place of contented completion [...]
Love is Timeless
Posted in Inspiration, Life, tagged Animals, Poignant on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a one minute video seen by 10 million people in less than a year on youtube. Youtube is such a great format to bring us these kinds of heartwarming renderings that previously sat in someone’s video vault. Bet you can’t watch it without at least one little happy tear coming to your eyes! [...]
For The One Who Misses Laughter
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You arrive after years like a bird with a broken beak. You are finally a breath away from everything. You ask if there’s a poem for you. Of course, there is a poem in everything. The whole way home I search for what it might be. I send this now as a mirror, for the [...]
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