Serious Shit Going on
There is some serious shit going down up on the north end of the island, total destruction of Levera National Park to build a 2 billion dollar resort and golf …
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RIP Dear Waters
Dear WatersWho could have imagined the morning we hung out by the side of the road in Grenville a little more than a week ago that the ancestors were getting …
A Community of Four
On a Train On a train. Knee to knee. Community of four. Young woman pulls out water color pencils and a journal. “Artist.” I say. She beams, “yep,” proceeds to …
The Story of Matching Tattoos
Day Fifteen A couple months ago Maya arrives on the verandah just after I finish Susan Cain’s new book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. She plops herself …
Practice Makes Practice Not Perfection
Day Fourteen Writing Practice ‘Just return’ I hear Reverend Angel’s voice from the online retreat with Upaya community last weekend. Just return. Simply. Gently. Kindly. Firmly. Return to the breath, …
Reflections on the Queen
Maya messages, “The Queen is dead.” She calls and says someone came up and down the residence floor pounding doors, “The Queen is dead. The Queen is dead.” Felt archaic; …
This Morning
This Morning Inner city roar and crickets split pea soup for breakfast this morning embodying ‘may it be so’ ‘may it be so’ ‘may it be so’ this morning watermelon …
Shadows Calling
A wallop of aloneness, feels more like loneliness. Mind racing. How to get rid of. I tell myself, stay. Stay right here, don’t rid anything. Stay. Feel. Feels like when …
Divine is Change
Divine is Change Scattered and lost in this realm of change; breathing in, breathing out. Octavia Butler’s words ‘God is change’ I hear this as ‘the Divine is change’ Sigh. …