poetry & the arts

Breaking away from what feels Familiar and normal How can anything be real? If only then are we free to roam This world completely uninhibited And free to falter...

Years ago, I’d leave the house each morning at seven to meet my friends to hike our lovely hills. On Wednesdays, the day the trash truck came, I would take...

Evolutionary Consciousness     brings "Shedding of our skins"     unearthing     great fear As we grip onto     all that is     Mine Our mummified states bound...

I want someone to explain to me what’s up with this year; a lot of crazy stuff is going on – a global pandemic, protests, antagonistic politics. California...

Can you drink my cup? He asks. What strange words, I answer. Where is it? I don't drink blood, I scoff and turn to go Wait, please, his...

Be silent Be still, Awakened. Be the silence That struggles To be heard. Perceive Acknowledge, Be the wisdom. Love Be loved Be silence. Be this space, This inner sanctum, That is Your soul.

What you see in the mirror, is not you. Your body is a medium, of your existence. See yourself, in your soul's mirror.

When separation of one comes again to meet its whole... this is a sacred union. A single point of Neutrality that marks its death and birth...

While it was foggy along the shoreline The loon call I did hear I called out and it answered me The seagulls gossiped as they heard They knew...

Khandro Music will release Inner World, a unique album of mantras and teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama set to music, on July...

They say the darkest hour is just before the dawn, a metaphorical message I hope is correct.  These months a complete churning up of ordinary life experience, calamities impossible to...

I was born with a heart exposed to the elements letting the cold winds of heartbreak blow mercilessly through me. Can I get some walls here please? Not to keep out...

Be rebellious, to know your creed. Be rebellious, to read your soul. Be rebellious, to find the mysteries. Be rebellious, to know your Lord.

When the grain of sand that is truth finally washes ashore after the comings and goings the roiling the furling and unfurling of the infinite chaos of the seas of consciousness it’s as...

Life plays best  when I be that,  which I was born for;  that which energizes my heart.  Limiting beliefs  about leaving the shore lure me,  like a ship-wrecking siren,  to dash my...

The Force of Consciousness Evolution moves the fabric of our lives. A blanket moulded, fixed around us Is being shaken. Not a...

April 2020 Do the animals sense how we’ve changed the way we live? A doe and fawn lie on our hill, watching us at the table, their ears like...