Posts Tagged ‘ earth stories ’

Filtered sunlight

Shadows and humming, songs and solitary notes. Light coming through the holly leaves. Circles of shadows on the snow from the red berries. Birds folding themselves into the pointed trees. The sound of the refrigerator or the heating system when the wind isn’t speaking. The ice already melting and winter just settling in. The...

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Summer Sunday

At first I was wondering if amniotic fluid was like the ocean.  But the day’s journey began thinking about the color salmon; whether it works on the walls of your home or not.  I remembered hearing about a paint called “dead salmon.” Clever name. Cynicism comes to your local paint and hardware store. It...

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from Natal Catalyst

             I wonder whether I received a primal push the way someone launches a boat into the water.  Or if this natal catalyst is something that has influenced the direction I’ve been going in ever since I got started.  I mean from way back when.  Wouldn’t that be something?  Whether the catalyst turns out...

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Teagong or stirring the soup

My qigong practice begins with stirring the soup.  Right away I notice the interior dialogue that I’m having. It isn’t just dialogue. It’s lists and to dooz that I remembered I didn’t do.  It’s imaginary conversations; even comebacks or responses I wish I had made. It is the stuff of talking with others or...

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Hiroshige’s dream

Foxes waiting under a moonlit tree to become human have only parcels of land and the domed shadows of trees.  Do you know this as despair?  We all learned that the West was the frontier. As the...

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the wild blues

The Wild Blues will be here soon.  Based upon a performance piece called The Wild Blue, this site is the future home of the book The Wild Blue, the blues chamber, a place for words about grief and the rainbow chamber, a place for words about resilience.  Since this site is meant to be...

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