Spring is a marching band. At first the ground is cold. The earth, parts of it, are still sleeping from winter. Buds flower and awaken pollinators and people. Action is the call of spring. Movement is the motion. It is more yang than yin. We leave the yin of winter for the yang of spring.… Continue reading Spring
Category: spirituality
Content
Content means substance; meaning. It also means satisfaction. If you were a tiny creature, abandoned by the side of a road, you could become an ambassador. Even a teacher. If you were once healthy but suffered an injury, this is another way to become an ambassador. This happens to beavers, porcupines, whales, owls, and even… Continue reading Content
Perception
“Steps to becoming conscious are one perception at a time.” Caroline Myss also said consciousness is about the task of refining our capacity to discern truth. We can discern what is true and what is not true. Awareness is the needed ingredient. It helps us recognize from the tiniest perceptions when we are being led… Continue reading Perception
2021
In the end, we burned patriarchy. But, that’s not where things started. The following day I made vegetable soup like my mom made, and like her mom made. No reason to throw that ritual out. Besides, that’s matriarchy. I was out of vegetable broth so had to go to Sundance Natural Foods and have the… Continue reading 2021
Notes from the dead
(All the ***** mean the sound of angel trumpets ) We’d love to tell you all about the next place but it is too much for you. For example, in this place everyone (********). We all exist in a (*) and (*) state in which (*) is (*) and (*) is (*). See what we… Continue reading Notes from the dead
The rat funeral
The rat expired in the straw In the temple Because of a cat The dark rat had soft black fur and was still warm from life Now there was no life in rat’s shining eyes fixed in one direction It was left alone in the dark and sometime later The rat’s loved ones came looking… Continue reading The rat funeral
Social Hermit
I wrote about trees for a while- five articles: pacific yew, gingko, cottonwood, madrone, myrtle wood. It’s hard to write about trees without getting religious. They simply embody holy elements and essence without doing anything. My neighbor’s tree consistently pours out gallons of sweet apples and they do absolutely nothing for it. They always give… Continue reading Social Hermit
A fertile dormant time
I recently realized I am not of the purely science or purely faith parties. What I seek is the party of wisdom. I vote for wisdom. I want my insight to go beyond contemporary agreements. Let us look through the lens of maturity. Can we go deeper than fierce loyalties toward perceived data within passing… Continue reading A fertile dormant time
Animal vegetable church
I typed in the 3 required lines and 10 seconds later, I got an email: congratulations you are an ordained minister! And so it was. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, it has come to pass. So call me if you want to be wed, baptized, or laid to rest. It really is official in… Continue reading Animal vegetable church
Temple talks
What is a temple? A consecrated place. Consecrate is to make sacred or holy. Temporal means earth time, secular, not of heaven, a limited experience. Is it the place or the ritual that is holy? How do we discover sacredness? In more practical terms, a temple is also defined as a space for observation marked… Continue reading Temple talks