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Tag Archives: mindfulness
The day after the Boston marathon bombing
Sudden violence (is there any other kind?) throws the world into sharp relief. Horror that doesn’t speak but roars in the head like the ocean. Magnolias blooming under the crescent moon. It gives things the proper perspective, too. Last night, … Continue reading
Posted in events, mindfulness, my glamorous life
Tagged bombing, Boston marathon, family, gratitude, love, mindfulness, prayforboston, spiritual practice, terrorism, violence
silence, lost sisters, escape
seeking emptiness and learning not to fear it we lost our sisters in the forest now they gather in the back, their voices shrill and loud they don’t seem to have aged but we have when did we trade the … Continue reading
Posted in my glamorous life, poetry, wheel of the year
Tagged aging, contemplation, doorway, earth-based spirituality, emptiness, forest, gift shop, middle way, mindfulness, museum, poetry, poetry - mine, silence, voices, women's spirituality, youth
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Hammond Pond Reservation, Green Line crossing
For five extra minutes you follow the path through mayapple, sarsaparilla and anxiety over a little hill and through what might be blueberry and poison ivy with beech and oak and maple rustling overhead to a pond, a flooded field … Continue reading
Posted in mindfulness, my glamorous life, poetry
Tagged boston, MBTA, mindfulness, nature, poetry, summer, urban wilderness, wheel of the year
Lars Andersen park, lunch in June
mind open and kindly toward flat water, screaming children, power tools
Posted in haiku, poetry, wheel of the year
Tagged children, haiku, lovingkindness, metta, mindfulness, noise
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Mount Ida College pond after work haiku
wind moving across the water birdsong bullfrog dragonfly chainsaw when the chainsaw falls still flash of red against black wings
Posted in haiku, mindfulness, poetry
Tagged contemplation, haiku, mindfulness, nature, poetry, pond, solitude
february 16 haiku – garden corridor near copley at dartmouth street
clouds obscure the sun al fresco lunch in winter dirty snow, green grass
Posted in haiku, poetry, wheel of the year
Tagged climate change, clouds, dirty snow, february, global warming, gratitude as a spiritual practice, haiku, lunch, mindfulness, winter, winter in boston
january haiku – woods under snow
deep snow on the trail spreads the ground under dark bark winter. silence. here.
Posted in haiku, poetry
Tagged boston, crone time, imbolc, january, mindfulness, on being a new englander, poetry, poetry - mine, snow, spiritual practice, walks in the woods, wheel of the year, winter, winter in boston, wintertime in boston, woods
Remembers (second draft)
the trees know better than we when spring is coming — weeks ago, they sent their feelers out into the cold. bowed down with snow they knew the grass remembers the color green and the snow remembers what it used … Continue reading
Strawberry (volta)
Returning the mind again and again to the single strawberry Red from the nearby earth sweetness then tart split on the knife and the red leavings you want to suck from the bright blade edge Waves of emotion … Continue reading
Posted in mindfulness, poetry, religion and spirituality
Tagged food, mindfulness, poetry, poetry - mine, spiritual practice
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haiku: settled like a stone in the earth
rearrange the mind settle into the moment stone dropped in a well
