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dried dull yellow big leaf maple bouncing and skittering backside up on legs I can’t understand following me dancing the unpredictable wind into my heart as gift gorgeous scarlet vine leaf maple doesn’t dance as well and the exquisite tiny yellow weeping birch leaf doesn’t dance at all they bring different gifts I can’t figure [...]
First, the definition of psychopomp, from wikipedia: Many religious belief systems have a particular spirit, angel or deity whose responsibility is to escort newly-deceased souls to the afterlife. These creatures are called psychopomps, from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός (psychopompos), literally meaning the “guide of souls”. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply [...]
As we come up on ‘All Hallows Ev’n’, maybe I’ll dress as a water-witch and see if people can guess what I am. I’m thinking: willow twigs and crystal pendulums, over a flesh-colored body suit, of course. Or maybe this is a better post for “Dia De Los Muertos” or at least All Souls Day. [...]
Beth’s recent blog inspired me to offer a few thoughts of my own on the connection between spirituality and politics. Here they are. These days most of us can see the difference between religion and spirituality. Some of us, like me, believe the two can be distinguished but not completely separated, while others think they [...]
Port Reyes National Seashore, California Flickr: Ric e Ette’s photostream I once read about how if you stood at the sea-shore and could observe where exactly the sea and the land met and keep looking and looking deeper ever deeper even with an electron microscope you’d never find that liminal space because there’s always an [...]
flickr photostream: Make My Day sunk boat on a bay in Majorca “All anxiety, all dissatisfaction, all the reasons for hoping that our experience could be different are rooted in our fear of death. Fear of death is always in the background. “As the Zen master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi said, ‘ Life is like getting [...]
“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.” Guillaume Apollinaire (French poet and critic who helped to direct poetry into unexplored channels, 1880-1918) The Hindu Goddess of Death and Destruction, Kali I’ve been reluctant to bring politics into [...]
Awhile back my friend Rita C. posted a piece here on the VTH called ‘Women who sleep with dogs’. It’s a sweet, edgy, tongue in cheek poem that made me think about the wolves I’ve slept with. Now, all you hundreds of past lovers of mine out there in the world, you can rest easy. [...]
Never could figure out why the fascination with gold. It’s pretty enough but so are Russian sage blossoms. Is it the rarity? Frogs are becoming rare. Maybe we should buy groceries or petrol with a life size token of a tree frog. Who makes the gold, standard? I am thinking of trading with rose petals [...]
October 10, 2008 This is an interview taped this past week in Atlanta. Carl McColman is a writer and editor. His site is: Anamchara: The Website of Unknowing. He’s currently writing his second book about mysticism. The interview gives a history on world mysticism and delves more deeply into some strains of it (Christian). Well [...]
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