two solitudes, meeting
I sat on a hard, backless stool, pulled inward by a million sun-lights dancing atop the waves of the strait. Why did everything seem so difficult? I mused. Where had I left off dancing,... More »
I sat on a hard, backless stool, pulled inward by a million sun-lights dancing atop the waves of the strait. Why did everything seem so difficult? I mused. Where had I left off dancing,... More »
It is alive, isn't it? I don't think I've ever doubted it.
Things of the past are already gone. Things yet to be, distant beyond imagining. The Way is just this moment, these words: Plum blossoms fallen; Gardenia just opening. —Ch'ing Kung img
It is late April. The pear tree, old and proudly rugged in her natural, unpruned state, does not care in this moment whether her fruit, if any, will be sweet or hard, soft or... More »
RAD 4/25/09
I am neither Christian nor Jew ... , so wrote the poet Rumi many years ago. Like Rumi, I don't consider myself as belonging to any particular religion, or faction, or really, group of... More »
Photo source Text from The Essential Rumi , tr. Coleman Barks RAD 3/28/09
Forever changing, Life's an open mystery. Thrilled, I turn the page. RAD 3/22/09 Photo source
—Hop to it! What are you waiting for??? The words came clear as a bell. In fact, clearer. And darker. They sounded more like the strident voice of a gong. Like doom. My head shot... More »
When the Japanese flowering cherry trees pop out in their gorgeous rosy pink blossoms I know spring has finally arrived, no matter what the outside temperature. For me, these blossoms and this colour, more than... More »