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Questions 9 Or 6 To 3
2021-05-23 15:54
In the springtime of each year we’ve come to realize that like the flowers of summer we to come to bloom in the fresh morning dew, in the rich loom of the mind- jc It was William Blake… Read More
The Sirens Song
2021-01-20 12:29
The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to salvation is hard.-Katha Upanishad We’re a curious bunch, our thirst for knowledge is unlimited. This… Read More
Prayer
2020-12-19 05:42
…said at dawn I step into the day, I step into myself, I step into the mystery… (Anishinaabe: Odawa, Ojibwa, Algonquin First Nations) Dear Friends, This prayer of the First Nat… Read More
Evening Tide ‘You And Me’
2020-11-15 15:44
On this road, my life begins Forgotten love, forgotten friend, a forgotten child that dwells within… Who could show it all to me as we sit on the edge of creation Perhaps in another t… Read More
Echo’s In The Dark
2020-11-05 03:12
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger f… Read More
Perceval
2020-09-06 14:31
Just as Perceval left the forest in search of the Grail he knew little about, there are new adventures at hand for you and for me that we can’t at this time perceive… new worlds… Read More
Valhalla
2020-07-20 20:04
I said momma can you tell me about the love between the moon and the deep blue sea. How long did they ride the tide to the horizon where little secrets are told from afar that no one will ev… Read More
Infinity
2020-07-10 17:37
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” -William Blake Impossible dreams that eat at the moments, one by one. Throw these away into… Read More
2020-06-27 19:15
What should one do… stand-still in the rain, umbrella open, covering every inch of your body from the raindrops falling asunder like water in a perpetual storm, never-ending, no never… Read More
Barataria
2020-06-19 17:55
We were like Panza and Quixote, chasing dragons in a land of myth and make-belief The moon held your father in your eyes as your grandmother rose with the sunNever gone, no not really ever g… Read More
2020-05-28 04:36
“Snow falling in the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.” –Steve Goodmen Recent events of the last few months still seem as foreign to me as snow falling on the M… Read More
The Moon Is Hanging Upside Down
2020-03-30 18:57
And everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon… Pink Floyd The quote above gives the impression that the moon by way of a solar eclipse can become a bit o… Read More
So This Is Love
2020-02-21 20:34
So this is love, of something or other.Merlin locked in a tree by his one true love.Kerouac his scroll of the open road unfolding before us as we traverse space and time to the hemispheres w… Read More
In Silent Lucidity
2020-02-02 01:16
Deeper issues of a sudden moment seated deep within my soul…quiet… can you hear the stillness? Quiet… can you see it moving? Where? If you have to ask, then you haven&rs&hell…Read More
The Love Thats Sleeping There
2020-01-21 22:06
True to its meaning a chance meeting with synchronicity happened when I arrived home from my latest road trip. I was in a car accident and of all places, just a few miles from where I was li… Read More
Pontchartrain
2019-12-12 02:22
Heading downriver toward New Orleans on Christmas eve you can hear the bells from St.Louis Cathedral and the angelic voices of the choir singing traditional Christmas hymns. If you listen ev… Read More
Polaris
2019-11-25 17:53
Oh bright star in a northern seaAs I wipe away the tears that once held me I think that maybe what I see From that bright star in front of me In that land by a northern sea Was never intende… Read More
On The Way Home
2019-11-10 18:51
“When the dream came I held my breath with my eyes closed. I went insane like a smoke ring day when the winds blow.” -Buffalo Springfield Take me away to the Black Hills, to a si… Read More
The Natural Bridge
2019-10-30 19:40
Many take shelter from feeling too much withinSome will tell you it’s a mortal sin To fly so high and steep so low Just as Perceval in tales of old But to know when all else fails… Read More
October
2019-10-21 16:04
“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to the field, hollow and the lone voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he h… Read More
In Vagabond Dreams
2019-09-03 14:27
Not all who wander are lost” -Tolkein No, we are not lost but locked hand in hand with a destiny not always understood. We set forth not by force or a lack of responsibility but in lov… Read More
2019-08-23 14:37
Dear Friends of WordPress, You may have noticed that during the last mouth or so I’ve spent less time blogging. Nothing wrong, I just decided to take a road trip, as Jack would call it… Read More
All In Time
2019-08-10 09:56
As many of you know I struggle with Parkinson’s disease. In the years since my diagnoses so much has changed either because of me or in spite of me… work, moving, kids, meeting… Read More
Sail On
2019-07-28 03:46
My sails catch wind from inhospitable surroundings into darkened waters. And to see any light only intends to surround me with more darkness. It is in this velvet serenity that at times I fe… Read More
Song Of The City And The River
2019-07-14 15:09
In the heart of the night, In the cool falling rain, There’s a full moon in sight, Shining down on the Ponchartrain, And the river she rises, Just like she use to do, She’s so fu… Read More
The Two Of Us
2019-07-03 02:24
You and I have memories, longer than the road that stretches on ahead -The Beatles Two from one! This is the root of suffering. Only perceive that I am one without two, Pure awareness, pure… Read More
2019-06-22 03:37
The following passage is found in the notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne, dated Salem, October 4, 1836, Union Street. To me, it speaks volumes about the human heart and its longing that is eve… Read More
Vishnu’s Dream
2019-06-08 18:21
Once upon a dream in a time not long ago while sailing the dark silent sea in the vicinity of the constellation Crux which harbors the Southern Cross, our pilgrim found himself immersed in u… Read More
2019-05-30 03:06
As fields of green grass, cover my feet, I place nine rows of nine candles…surrounding a circle of nine candles not unlike the wheels of a bicycle. Flowers grow from the center, and m… Read More
In A Dark Wood…Shunngmanitu Thanka
2019-05-05 09:54
The Lakota say that it is not uncommon To hear something calling your name In the stillness of a dark moonless night. This is ‘shungmanitu thanka‘, the Great Wolf. One night our… Read More
Peace In Your Life
2019-04-29 02:26
“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.” -Eckhart Tolle One day not too… Read More
Mr. Parkinson, Walking Man
2019-04-23 03:47
Moving in quiet desperation, Keeping an eye on the holy land, A hypothetical destination, Say who is this walking man. -James Taylor Its been a while since I’ve posted anything about P… Read More
Ligeia
2019-04-14 05:14
Anyone who has read Edgar Allan Poe can attest to his use of the English language to convey beauty as poignant and surreal to whatever situation life may reveal. His sense of the macabre is… Read More
The Artist Soul
2019-04-07 02:53
Artistic expression in its many forms, be it the painter, the writer and so on to the musician, the actor is an undertaking of reverence toward the soulfulness of human creativity. We create… Read More
Equinox
2019-03-28 22:13
I said to my beloved, tell me about the love between the moon and the deep blue sea? How long have they traveled the length of the tides to the horizon where they behold the secrets of time… Read More
2019-03-13 19:13
Ogleo peaked through the crack of his bedroom door. He heard his mother’s door to her bedroom close for the night and the faint click of the light switch turn off. He stepped out into… Read More
2019-03-05 03:26
What should one do, stand still in the rain, umbrella open, guarding every inch of your body against the raindrops falling asunder like water in a perpetual storm? Or, maybe one should throw… Read More
Ode To Joy… Cheerful Again
2019-02-23 03:54
The joyful state, the combined results all states of being bringing laughter to the soul, empathy to the heart and compassion to the mind. ‘Joy’ that comes from the mindful… Read More
Changes Alt One
2019-02-10 03:22
“Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have,” -Dewey Bunnell And it came to pass on this day, that the wild man who created such havoc casting out… Read More
A Noble Heart
2019-02-03 04:47
I awoke one morning to the sun rising over the horizon where the tree line whispers secrets to the sky. With the aroma of coffee brewing in the air, I was thinking of this day and all it cou… Read More
Dreams, The River And You
2019-01-27 04:35
Sacred River, A Meditation   The sun settling silently on the big muddy, grandfather of all rivers as thoughts come and go and we mourn and celebrate all that life offers. My sacre… Read More
2019-01-21 02:57
“God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.” -Martin Luther Kneeling or sitting by the window in the dark or with a… Read More
2019-01-13 04:48
It was the red scarf that begged for my attention. She is never without as she sways back and forth during interpretation, never without. She is an image in my mind I see during the fal… Read More
The Mystic Is Nine
2019-01-01 04:45
“Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic” -Van Morrison Find something, anything, which is so encompassing that in a given block of time it enthralls you to get lost togethe… Read More
Christmas… A Kinder Word
2018-12-23 00:47
Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea… on and on… until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the he… Read More
Solstice
2018-12-16 03:23
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller   As equal days and nights embrace each… Read More
2018-12-11 15:15
On Christmas eve our pilgrim finds himself in a land far north of anything he has ever seen… In the Advent of stars, We celebrate the lite of love into the temporal world Four candles… Read More
The Shirt Of Flames
2018-12-01 20:26
“ Love is extravagant, in the price, it is willing to pay, the hardship it is willing to endure, and the strength it is willing to spend. Love never thinks in terms of “how littl… Read More
Arianrhod
2018-11-17 22:44
We began our romance deep within the confines of a world we conjured from the depths of our harmonious souls; a land of green pastures, thick forest; days of bright sunlight; afternoons… Read More
There Was To Be A Wedding
2018-11-11 04:49
“Go on and break you crazy heart” -Hank Williams And it’s another battle of the Heart versus the Head… It seems like decades since I lived this one particular life a… Read More
Sir Gawain And The Perilous Bed
2018-11-04 07:47
“ Love is extravagant, in the price, it is willing to pay, the hardship it is willing to endure, and the strength it is willing to spend. Love never thinks in terms of “how littl… Read More
Oceans
2018-10-28 04:17
And at the end of the day When the oceans kiss the sky And the sky turning the deepest blue Where the vast array of stars in the night sky Give sight to the moon holding ancient secret The m… Read More
2018-10-20 23:25
“Love, what a mess it can bring to your life, guaranteed to screw things up, but what a glorious screw-up. For it is out of this world, of the universe.” -Joseph Campbell Love an… Read More
2018-10-14 02:46
As the high heat of August crawls not so inconspicuously by, we see the waywardness that is September inching ever so slowly towards an unknown destination. Month by month, day by day we are… Read More
Sail On, Sailor
2018-10-06 23:22
I sailed an ocean, unsettled ocean Through restful waters and deep commotion Often frightened, unenlightened Sail on, sail on sailor -Brian Wilson Longing Hold on to the thread The currents… Read More
2018-08-26 05:04
It’s the same story except the names change… Qais whose name means “falls in love” does exactly that except this time its with the moon princess, Laila, whose name m… Read More
Solitude
2018-08-12 06:33
“Solitude is not found so much by looking outside the boundaries of your dwelling but by staying within. Solitude is a deepening of the present and unless you look for it in the presen… Read More
Trip Into Understanding
2018-08-05 03:35
There are times when we try putting together life’s puzzles, assigning the pieces as neatly and securely as we can, into a box of our own subjective thinking; a box that hasn’t a… Read More
An Imaginary Western
2018-07-28 09:15
“While others watched  Roy Rodgers, I wanted to be like Crazy Horse, he was always more interesting to me.” -JC Take me away to the Black Hills, to a single mountain in the… Read More
The Student (again)
2018-07-21 11:22
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung You look inside upon the vastness of the soul and realize ho… Read More
Changes 2
2018-07-14 20:51
There is nothing permanent except change… Heraclitus One day, not too long ago, I was reading my old journals and it dawned on me that issues I wrote about back then are still with me… Read More
Twilight
2018-07-08 00:50
“And all will meet at Twilight“ On a train making its way deep into the southern night, I fall asleep to the rhythm of the rails as a full moon sets overhead. Of a sudden a vicar… Read More
Natures Truth
2018-07-01 02:40
It’s said that the Angels on high are joyously whenever someone turns their back on the everyday life. That‘s the journey, as Van Morrison sang, “From the dark end of the s… Read More
Across The Mystic Sea
2018-06-24 18:32
I awoke from an old dream last evening as the sun kissed the sky and rain came pouring in across the room. I am captured in time, of no major importance save that of time itself fo… Read More
In City Dreams
2018-06-10 02:02
“Change your vibration, change your life” -The Buddha Impossible dreams that eat at the moments, one by one. Throw these away into the dustbin of lost days. Too much sl… Read More
Song For Bobby
2018-06-02 14:20
   “To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Aeschylus I remember going to bed after hearing that Bobby Kennedy won the California primary. Thoug… Read More
2018-05-26 04:48
Gahmuret and the Lady Herzeloyde are the parents of Parzival, who will one day find the Grail and ask the ‘noble question’ of the Fisher King. Upon the death of Gahmuret in battl… Read More
The Arc Of A Dream
2018-05-19 02:33
“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.” -Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones As the morning star rises in the east with Venus not far behind… Read More
CRUX
2018-05-12 23:31
Once upon a dream not too long ago, while sailing sleeps silent gate in the vicinity of the Constellation Crux which harbours the Southern Cross, our pilgrim found himself immersed in unmark… Read More
The Chamber
2018-05-06 01:37
The following passage is found in the notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne, dated Salem, October 4, 1836, Union Street. To me, it speaks volumes about the human heart and its longing that is eve… Read More
Cotillion
2018-04-29 03:25
Man must not disclaim his brotherhood even with the guiltiest, since, though his hand is clean, his heart has surely been polluted by the flitting phantoms of iniquity. – Nathaniel Haw… Read More
Dwellings Of A Lifetime
2018-04-21 02:58
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realized what’s changed is you.”    … Read More
Life And Death
2018-04-01 02:43
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”                         -Havelock E… Read More
Mother
2018-03-11 06:15
“Words used in different form and measure tell the story of our lives. Such stories conjunct other stories creating a collective story, word for word. When perfected, and connected, th… Read More
The Way
2018-03-04 04:15
It is the Way and the Way-goer. It is the eternal road along which walk all beings, but no being made it, for itself is being. It is everything and nothing. From it all things spring, a… Read More
2018-02-25 04:28
  George Harrison, if he'd have lived would be 75 years old as of February 25th... So in keeping with this celebration of his life and music, I am posting again my essay entitled S… Read More
February
2018-02-17 05:38
There are moments in time when we try to reassemble life’s rich pageant; assigning the pieces as neatly and securely as we can into a box of our own subjective thinking; a box that has… Read More
Orion And The Art Of Solitude
2018-02-10 04:29
“Solitude is not found so much by looking outside the boundaries of your dwelling but by staying within. Solitude is a deepening of the present and unless you look for it in the presen… Read More
Where The Earth And Sky Meet
2018-02-04 03:52
Relax and empty your mind of all concepts and temporal concerns. You are here to observe without prejudice… mindful of the environment you know nothing of. You don’t know what t… Read More
Lucidity
2018-01-20 11:50
Deeper issues of a sudden moment seated deep within my soul…quiet… can you hear the stillness? Quiet… does it move within you? Into the abyss of situations shedding… Read More
2018-01-14 05:10
Find something, anything, which is so encompassing that in a given block of time it enthralls you to get lost together in unconsciousness. Such things are beyond space and time, it is bliss… Read More
The Left Hand Way
2017-12-30 05:25
“The right-hand path is living in the context of the mask of one’s village. The left-hand way is of the individual quest. So the mask of the individual’s own life pulls aga… Read More
Again The Ghost Sped On…
2017-12-25 06:29
“Again the ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea… on, on… until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside th… Read More
River Song
2017-12-17 05:05
Tonight our Pilgrim sleeps under velvet skies As we count the days since the caravans have departed winter’s rite He finds his beloved in a hundred murid images The clues hiding d… Read More
Tales Of The Frozen Man… PD And Me
2017-12-02 23:44
For some time now I’ve been employed in the process of writing a book on my life with Parkinson’s disease. In this process, my mind has discovered many forgotten incidences in th… Read More
Gram
2017-11-19 21:35
“I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.” ― Crazy… Read More
2017-11-12 03:02
In reality, the house was rather small. But it’s enormous in accordance with the memories of my youth as it was the first house I actually remember calling home. Things always seem big… Read More
2017-11-05 03:01
We enter here, we enter there The road ahead, it never cares There’s a turn for you, a turn for me A turn for all who care to see. Like Perceval, le Chevalier Rouge A precoci… Read More
Face In The Crowd
2017-10-29 01:21
“Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.” -Master Hsing Yun, “Describing the Indescribable&rdquo&hell…Read More
Antoine Fats Domino
2017-10-26 01:30
You have to just stop and raise your hands to the sky and wonder what’s going on? A few weeks ago we lost Tom Petty and now it’s personal, someone from home. Many thought Katrina… Read More
On The Porch, 6 AM
2017-10-14 02:25
Dawn is approaching, 6 AM, Zack is pacing, growing impatient, I hobble out of bed to let him out, It’s nice out here, I should have coffee on the porch, I tuck this away, go inside and… Read More

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