Just Lying on the Grass at Blackwater

I think sometimes of the possible glamour of death…

that it might be wonderful to be

lost and happy inside the green grass…

or to be the green grass!...

or, maybe the pink rose, or the blue i… Read full post »

For the Interim Time

When near the end of day, life has drained

Out of light, and it is too soon

For the mind of night to have darkened things,

No place looks like itself, loss of outline

 Makes everything look strangely in-b… Read full post »

A Blessing 

 May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.

May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.

May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.

May you  respond to the/… Read full post »

Noninstruction

“What does your master teach?” asked a visitor.

“Nothing,” said the disciple.

“Then why does he give discourses?”

“He only points the way…he teaches nothing.”

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Daisies

 It is possible, I suppose, that sometime we will learn everything there is to learn: what the world is, for example, and what it means. I think this is as I am crossing from one field to another, in summer, and the mockingbird is mocking me,… Read full post »

 In Blackwater Woods

  Look, the trees 

are turning

their own bodies

into pillars

of light,

are giving off the rich

fragrance of cinnamon

and fulfillment,

the long tapers

of cattails

are… Read full post »

From: I sit listening to the wind: 5

~ by Judith Duerk ~

How might your life have been different if, once as you sat in the darkness, suffering the most piercing shame for simply being yourself…you had sensed a presence nearby, sitting quietly in the shadows attending you&he… Read full post »

From: I sit listening to the wind: 4

~ by Judith Duerk ~

  How might your life have been different if, late one afternoon, near the end of the summer, as you thought of the opening of school…and of trying, again, to learn to use your mind in traditional ways… Read full post »

From: I sit listening to the wind: 3

~ by Judith Duerk ~

  How might it have been different for you, when you were at odds with your closest friends... confused and in conflict within, if there had been a place for you, where you could be received by a… Read full post »

From: I sit listening to the wind: 2

~ by Judith Duerk ~

How might your life have been different if, as a young woman struggling to find your voice…in despair that you might never be able to say what you knew inside…there had been a place for you… Read full post »

 From: I sit listening to the wind: 1 - by Judith Duerk

How might your life have been different if, once, as a young girl…when you wandered alone in the woodlands not far from your mother's house... you had come upon a small glade you had never seen before? If,… Read full post »

At Great Pond

At Great Pond

the sun, rising,

scrapes his orange breast

on the thick pines,

  and down tumble

a few orange feathers into

the dark water.

On the far shore a

  white bird is standing

like a… Read full post »

Creator, It is I. Thank you for today's sunrise, for the breath and life within me, and for all of your creations.

Creator, Hear my prayer, and honour my prayer.

As the day begins with the rising sun, I ask, Spirit keeper of/… Read full post »

 If you are practicing awareness, then you are being inattentive

~ JKOnline Daily Quotes ~

Can you practice awareness?

All Is Well

Death is nothing at all,

I have only slipped away into the next room,

I am I, and you are you,

Whatever we were to each other, that we are still,

Call me by my old familiar name,

Speak to me in the same easy way… Read full post »

Loves All Things

  Loves all things is the Clan Mother of the Seventh Moon Cycle and the month of July. The colour connected with her medicine is yellow and her cycle represents loving the truth found in all life forms. She teaches us the wisdom of compassion and how… Read full post »

 Elder's Meditation of the Day

"...Grandmother the Earth. That power is here all the time. It is continuous, and nobody controls it."

~ Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA ~

  There are certain powers that the human being has no choice but to ob… Read full post »

 The Ship

I am standing upon the seashore.

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the ocean.

She is an object of beauty and strength.

I stand and watch her until at length she hangs

like a speck of white cloud just where the sea

and… Read full post »

Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer

I went out of the schoolhouse fast

and through the gardens and to the woods,

 and spent all summer forgetting what I’d been taught... 

two times two, and diligence, and so forth,

how to be… Read full post »

Risk it

To laugh is…to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is…to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out is…to risk involvement.

To place your ideas, your dreams before th/… Read full post »

You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim

~ JKOnline Daily Quotes ~

Meditation is one of the most extraordinary things, and if you do not know what it is you are like the blind man in a world of bright color, shadows and… Read full post »

~ by Pam Younghans ~

The card I pulled for the last two weeks of June shows the image  of a flower growing out of rocks. The title of the card is "Courage," and here's part of the interpretation:

Elder's Meditation of the Day  

"We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears."

Blue Iris

Now that I'm free to be myself, who am I?

Can't fly, can't run and see how slowly I walk.

Well, I think, I can read books.

"What's that you're doing?"

the green-headed fly shouts as it buzzes past.

I close the book.

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