rituals & creating space
collaborating & encouraging... As we sit quietly in creating, let’s remember this… Perhaps the wisdom lies not in the constant struggle to bring the sacred into daily life but in the recognition...
View Articlereturning again & again…..an existential possibility….
the serenity of drifting The divine manifestation is ubiquitous- Only our eyes are not open to it- Awe is what moves us forward- Live from your own center- The divine lives within you. The separateness...
View Articlea light dusting of ancient, ritualistic remembrance
a glimpse of shimmer A quiet night behind my grass hut. Alone, I play a stringless lute. It’s melody drifts to the wind blown clouds & fades. Its sound deepens with the running stream, expanding...
View Articlerunning wildly into creative fire
Art and healing are intimately connected because it is through imagination and image making that you can stimulate and witness the process of becoming whole. The experience of becoming whole, while...
View Articlethe wild ride of grace….a fool’s game….
No, it’s not fools who turn to mystics. It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live. The fools, the...
View Articlethe beautiful colors of our deepest sorrows
we make beauty…. The word blessing evokes a sense of warmth and protection; it suggests that no life is alone or unreachable. Each life is clothed in raiment of spirit that secretly links it to...
View Articlesoul shadows blow into the wings of angels
Eastern art values ‘negative space’ for what it is, rather than for what it is not. It values open space in a painting, not for how it sets off what is painted but for its own ‘positive’ role. This...
View Articlenurturing the promise of solstice
The all-night convenience store’s empty and no one is behind the counter. You open and shut the glass door a few times causing a bell to go off, but no one appears. You only came to buy a pack of...
View Articlethe view from your window
Listen. The Beloved is singing you a love song. Right now, as you sit inside your house of bone and flesh, the Beloved knows your essence. Do you hear the subtle sound of breath, the bullforg chorus...
View Articlewhen all else is seemingly lost
Ritual is about joining vision and practicality, heaven and earth, samsara and nirvana. When things are properly understood, one’s whole life is like a ritual or a ceremony. Then all the gestures of...
View Articlethe support of ritual
Put your hand on your heart in you there is power there are ideas no one has ever thought of there is the strength to love purely and intensely and to be loved back there is the power to make people...
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