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A New Season
photo by Sueyeun Juliette Lee, April 2015 It has been a long time since I’ve updated. Life is so much different this year. I promise I am coming back. I promise to put some life back into this site. After I get back from my big trip abroad next week. I want to write about […]
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Remembering Don Belton (1956-2009)
Early in the day yesterday, I got news of Don Belton’s brutal murder, and ever since then, I have been struggling to integrate this knowledge into my heart and mind. While we were not close friends, he is someone who touched my heart in a very deep way over the course of many years. I […]
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Poems for meditators, final installment
Dear Sarah, Cells of my sky and lungs I breathe in self and other, division, duality, and I breathe out the union, reunion with all-spirit — rays of light mingle with exhalation– we, as one, sigh our greeting of recognition, inspiring a smile and a soft, broken heart– _____________________ Dear Andrea, Our hearts, like tea […]
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Poetry and meditation, 4
Only 4 more cards to go. Here are the penultimate poems: Dear Peter, Sometimes, we must walk along a dark path to find light– sometimes, solitude fills the gaps, requires that we empty before we fill– we expand and contract, sing or wail, find ways to be peaceful in struggle–we are brave and strong together […]
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Poetry and meditation, part three
I have been slow to send these out, but here are the latest group: Dear Diane, Sometimes we stay through uncertainty, our bodies breaking open, hearts afraid– Sometimes we find the right questions, satisfying answers– Sometimes, we just sit, full of heat and sadness, fear pushing against walls– _________________________________ Dear Randy, The quick flap of […]
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Poems for meditators, part two
Dear Liesbet, How we find or make meaning — how we fill or fulfill — what cost or what loss, how the heart expands and contracts when we say “yes” or “no” — filter the residue, magnify the results _________________ Dear Marino, How do we doubt connection— expansion— fullness— How do we doubt “thank you” […]
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Poems for meditators
Last weekend, I finished a significant weekend meditation retreat, and during the celebration afterward, we were all given the opportunity to present something as an offering to the group. I read a few poems, but my real offering was the promise of a poem to each person in the room in the form of a […]
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re-vision-ing
I have been thinking a lot lately about what makes a good blog (mostly because of our new work blog, which I’ve been maintaining), and I realized that I wouldn’t want to read this one very much because there’s usually nothing happening. I know that there’s very little happening here because I’ve been thinking about […]
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A new series
This is one of a series of new poems I’ve been working on. This control, this push away— difficult to say how the flush of her face shaded her eyes— Sunlight through thick cloudsinvites those urges of passion this glass creating a sunset, a fire— each struggle, a line,each blade, an […]
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Reading at Chapterhouse
If you are in Philadelphia on December 13, please come hear me read at the Chapter&Verse series (Chapterhouse Gallery and Cafe, 620 S. 9th Street). The reading starts at 8pm. I will be reading with Laura Jaramillo and Brandon Holmquest. http://chapterhousereadings.blogspot.com/ Hope to see you there!