Poetry & More

So much is implied in the word “takuhatsu.”  Traditionally, it’s the practice of monks going door to door with their...

What is this longing, this feeling that there is something to be found, something that is more important than anything,...

Soup and Salad When you mix ingredients in a bowl, it’s a salad. When you bake them, it’s a casserole....

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of...

This magnificent poem by Nâzim Hikmet, “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved,” is all the more amazing when you realize...

For the Asking – Denise Levertov https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2019/05/for-asking.html Quotes from Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Freeman Dyson Mary –...

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you...

Like sunflowers, we are always turning toward the sun.  We may not know it, we may feel as though we...

How lovely it is to spend the morning with poetry Fernando Pessoa Pablo Neruda Even the names are poetry Sunshine...

Lately some old wounds and old fights have been coming up in me yet again.  Evidently the scars are acting...