Meditations in Portland
I was in Portland, Or, recently to visit my best friend and new baby. Portland was so wonderful this trip. The atmosphere here feels, and pulls at me, much stronger than it has before.I’ve been saying it for years, that I knew I was going to move back here…you know, “someday”—“someday” (what is it about that word that we love so much?)... [Read more...]
It gets me through the nights..
you know those nights I’m talking about. Those long, looong, LONG nights, when your restless mind just won’t let you keep your date with the Sandman. Or your restless heart won’t even let your uneasy mind take over, just for a break. So, on those nights, I try a series of different tricks to help ease the jitter-bugs, soothe the savage... [Read more...]
Imagination does not Exist-Hafiz
You should come close to me tonight wayfarer for I will be celebrating you your beauty still causes me madness keeps the neighbours complaining when I start shouting in the middle of the night because I cant bear all this joy I will be giving birth to suns I will be holding forests upside down gently shaking soft animals from trees and burrows into... [Read more...]
Conman-Jeremy Clark-Erskine
It was an ordinary night in October, 2009. I was on OKCupid, considering disabling my profile, as I was exhausted from dating, and wanted to take a break. A handsome and charming young man and I started chatting on IM, and he impulsively asked me if he could meet me for some ice cream, right then. So I said yes (what the hell sort of thinking). 2 dates... [Read more...]
Quan Yin-in the dark
Quan Yin statue I step up to the altar-greet her dragon; gaze at her face. I light one candle, then another, and mentally rest for a moment, though I am standing. It feels like a perch, spiritually. A place at the end of a quick-light footed staircase, leading to a panorama. I perch there, and muse on my path, and the various threads that intersect... [Read more...]
