I wonder how much time I’ve spent watching other people live their lives; how much time I’ve spent feeling separate or apart. I wonder how many of us are dulled by the faux reality of constant life-streaming. The preoccupation and fascination with what others are doing – and the unconscious addiction to packaging our own lives for others to see – is it dimming the vibrancy, the creativity, the … [Read more...] about Life Streaming
Poetry
Be Wild //
Be wild in your own mind Be free in your own skin Fear not what you might find On the journey deep within Because everything you are Is everything you have And everything you have Is what you have to give The deep well of your soul Has no bottom and no top The eternal flow of loving-kindness Is only yours to stop … [Read more...] about Be Wild //
Do Not Look Away
Drumpf won. The fractures and fissures in our nation’s foundation have been brought into the glaring daylight, no longer to be denied or ignorantly overlooked. The skeletons we knew were there – some of us more than others – are out of the closets. This is a moment of bringing the terrible shadows and the dark underbelly of this country into the light. Of bringing the suffering and the … [Read more...] about Do Not Look Away
Modern Muse
Hiding in the in-between She hopes that she remains unseen She’s shed her former scaly skin But unsure of who she is within Hiding in the present moment Her exuberance still lying dormant A deafening silence she well knows Her voice suspended, in repose Some might call it life’s atonement Three long days or in one moment Forty years or reincarnation A measure of her … [Read more...] about Modern Muse
Trigger Points
Trigger points You think you leave them behind But just when you’re free they come back to remind you of a moment in time of some pain, of some crime And all the good around you falls away and suddenly it becomes impossible to feel love. Above all else you’re disgusted with yourself Reliving a moment someone took from you Believing for a moment you’re unlovable Conceding for a moment … [Read more...] about Trigger Points