Intrinsic Heart

Lunar New Year is coming up on January 22nd, and thus a couple of poems on the topic of starting a new year, new beginnings, and celebration. On the Occasion of Lunar New Year  I celebrate every New Year that...

You will have to decide if you want this— want the blessing that comes to you on an ordinary day when you are minding your own path, bent on the task before you that you have done a hundred times,...

A clear drink of water.  A cloudless sky.  A moment’s silence.  An unexpected breeze. Waking up in a small motel in Fiji, somehow light and filled with joy.  Nothing to do, nothing not to do.  A feeling of no problems,...

Live in the Uncertainty Live in the uncertainty Live in the Unknown How does the rose know itself until it is full blown? - Shanti Natania Grace ~~~~~~~~~~~ When All Doors Are Open When all doors are open When everything...

This is a different sort of story than you’ll usually find on this website, a story from a another life many years ago.  In those days I was a freelance writer, writing under three different names (more about that in...

When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am...