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The Looking
There are many types of love. There are many expressions of love. To pigeon hole yourself into what your parents had or what society believes you should have is possible but paints the world with grayer colors. That is unless…
Tagged with: facets, finding love, journey, life, love, pigeon hole, self, silence
Posted in Musings
Posted in Musings
Journey to the West
Mountains cloaked in cloud Road stretched to the horizon Silence then thunder Dark…alone…running Sailing a jet-black river Timeless history Spring dust blocking sun Night shifts into muddy day Journey to the west
Tagged with: change, desert road, Haiku, history, journey, journey to the west, pathway, route 66, self, solitude, sprin, storm clouds, the future, the past
Posted in Poetry
Posted in Poetry
The Face of the Divine
Many look for the face of the Holy and hope to find a visage similar to their own. Religious iconography shows a multitude of different modes of the divine throughout history. The path we walk sometimes dictates (not always by…
Tagged with: comfort, community, contextual presence, Creation, Divine, emotions, Face of the Divine, God, growth, Holy, journey, pathway, reflection, self, spiritual family, strength, understanding, unique, walking meditaition
Posted in Musings
Posted in Musings
Weeping for the Past
World stretched thin, brittle- Held in the hands of Mother, Weeping for the past.
Far Paths
Pathways to insight- Stretching off into the far. Paper, light and air, Stone and earth, world turning round. All laid out in memory.
Tagged with: academics, desert walking, enlightenment, experience, Haibun, insight, journey, memory, pathway, see the worl, self, silence, sitting meditation, walking meditation, wood
Posted in Poetry
Posted in Poetry
Night Trips
Darkness in the room- Soft glow from under the door. Restless half dreams press. Powerless…forlorn- Lost in the recent past. Wandering confined. The air warms brighter. Stillness broken by nature- The day begins old.
Winter Sleep
Winter home sealed Warm underneath root and rock. Porridge steaming hot.
Rila, Bulgaria
The Rila area of Bulgaria hold numerous areas that hold an appeal to those looking for walking meditation, quiet solitude or a place of hermitage. Rila, thought to be of Thracian origin, means “well-watered mountain” and its connection to the…
Tagged with: Bulgaria, Dzherman River, Eastern Orthodox, hermatige, journey, monestery, mountain, nature, quiet solitude, reflection, Rila, Rila Monastery, Saint Ivan, Saint Ivan of Rila, self, Seven Rila Lakes, silence, St. Ivan, Thracian, walking meditation, water
Posted in Locations
Posted in Locations
Nian Xióng Hall 