Yes We Can

Every tree, every growing thing says: You harvest what you sow. With life, as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love. A rose opens because she is the fragrance that she loves. -Poem by Rumi -Painting by Mimi Irish

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the constancy of flux

this one’s for you Laura, happy solstice Don’t Grieve. Anything you have lost will come around again, in another form. The child weaned from mother’s milk is now drinking honey mixed with wine. Joy moves from unmarked box to unmarked box as rainwater down to flower bed, as roses up from ground. Now it is [...]

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The Slightest Idea

At our gathering on Sunday, Carrie ended the meeting by reading this poem.  I thought it was a beautiful contribution. The Slightest Idea The moon and I call each other moon. And the sun and I call each other sun, all while this truth also exists: I have been so crazy in love with the [...]

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Trapped in Heaven, the reality of life on Earth

Philosophy by Pablo Neruda The truth of the green tree in spring and of Earth’s crust is proven beyond a doubt: the planets nourish us despite eruptions and the sea offers us fish despite her quaking: we are slaves of the earth that is also governess of air. Walking around an orange I spent more [...]

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