At long last, I am releasing a collection of poetry and here is the cover: This was immediately the cover that pulled me in and held me. Allen Ginsberg’s approach to poetry was ‘first thought best thought’ and -in the case of this cover- that really applies. There’s something about that lightning and the purple…
Poetry
Writing the Sly Silence Within
Working on a mindfulness certification, the one practice that pulls me forward is following the word. That is, following the words that appear in my head as I’m meditating. I follow, realize I’m following, and return to breathing. I do the same thing when writing. This practice developed by reading Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg…
This Voraciousness
(A journal excerpt) This voraciousness is about the insatiable quest for knowledge, the need to know more to learn more to experience more. Though not to experience – experience chews up time. Learn and move on to the next thing, learn more, read more, more, more. This voraciousness is a stumbling block, a thing that…
Be / Learn / Know
All Earth bound, tethered down Souls All flying inside the mind of One, All of You, friends unrecognized and shying away from discovery by repenting treacherous discoveries to be named at a later date. All of us sleeping, and all of us waking using metaphor and symbol, using words, pictures, and songs. All of…