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Monthly Archives: June 2011
SOAKED
Soaked on a gray, rainy summer’s day. . . pangs abound– luckily, here’s shelter of a kind– I can take solace, as I see the rim of waning light of day under cloak of blue cast clouds a two-stripe dusky … Continue reading
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TEETH INTO OUR LAWS, TEETH INTO OUR FOOD
If a law has no teeth in it, that means it doesn’t work to solve the problem it’s supposed to solve. Similarly, if we do not chew, our food cannot quite heal and nourish us to the extent it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Chewing, Conscious Eating, Eating, Effectiveness, Food, Healing, Joy, Laws, Life, Love, Thought
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IN THE NOONTIME OF OUR YEAR
Summer peaked its arc did you feel it? We are riding high! The sun slinks slow and long across the sky– do you see it? The freight train rolls and honks its wheels, on the tracks aroar to take the … Continue reading
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HOW CAN I OFFER YOU A SLICE OF BEAUTY?
How can I offer you a slice of beauty without a camera or its lens? How can I manage to fulfill a duty Without unduly painful stretches or distorting bends? How can I +++++make you do ++++++++++a double take ++++++++++for … Continue reading
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THE FEEDBACK LOOP OF LIFE
Ahhh, the feedback loop of life. . . works pretty well, when signals spell a swing too far in one direction– just move the other way to seek correction. . . but God forbid that in the process in between, … Continue reading
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IN SEARCH OF TIME, SPACE, AND PLACE TO STAND
No time No space +++++no home +++++no choice ++++++++++no perpetrator ++++++++++of a crime +++++++++++++++but hiding +++++++++++++++of a face suppression of a body +++++instructions +++++that become a lady ++++++++++insurrections ++++++++++of the heart +++++++++++++++a root correction +++++++++++++++needed from the start slap wood … Continue reading
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DRIVING FORCE
Sometimes +++++life becomes +++++quite like driving a car. . . +++++you can’t just go when you want to go– +++++you have to take your turn +++++in cooperation with the traffic flow +++++which means that ++++++++++if you ++++++++++onto a boulevard or … Continue reading
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HOW SILENCE SPEAKS
Silence says so many things by its simple fact of saying nothing– melodious, rhythmic notes awaited in the rest– Summoning the patience to get through the stillness is the test– And one that calls for saintly strength in order just … Continue reading
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BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU STEP!
Confinement of dining in finery– constrained to a limit as the casual me– the cost to conformity weighed against the price of expressing personality. . . Escape, but return, and face the fate of being left out in the cold: … Continue reading
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THIS AIN’T NO CUL-DE-SAC
When difficulties roll right in and obstacles abound– it takes my getting underneath to feel the currents of what moves the earth, with head straight up, body walking, senses calm, alert– perhaps not for the faint of heart– but, in … Continue reading
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