Writing spontaneously is opening a window, letting the words fly in. This implies words are alive . . . autonomous. They can fly. Right now, they are waiting quietly outside your window . . . waiting for the window to open . . . waiting for you to open. Tat, Tat, Tat The words become […]
Create Beauty
“For [Navajo Indians] beauty is central. A person is not rich for the money he has, but for the number of songs he knows. The artist is not an eccentric living on the edge of society, but is the norm. . . . For the Navajo the creation of beauty and the embodiment of oneself […]
Breath of Fire
Bardo of Writing It can be said poets talked too much wrote too long, listening to the sound of their voices. This was my offering to have written little, & heard the sounds of the world. –Janet Rodney (The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry edited by Andrew Schelling, p.262) A Misty Paradox […]
Healer
That Skill A thorn has entered your foot. That is why you weep at times at night. There are some in this world who can pull it out. The skill that takes they have learned from Him. –St. Catherine of Siena (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West […]
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