Kairos Network Blog: Stories and Essays on Death and Dying from Healthcare Professionals has picked up the story posted on Virtual Teahouse two years ago called: Douglas Firs Were Our Sanctuary. This edition is slightly edited and the collages were not able to be included. But the Andreya’s story (“A”) continues to ripple out into [...]
I am honored that the story of my 94 year old grandmother Verna’s near death experience is included in this compilation. Available through Amazon on Kindle and in paperback. Click on the picture for a direct Amazon link. You can also read my story on Finding Ground site: Closer Than Our Own Skin If you’d like [...]
Poem of the Month ~ August 2011 There’s an old adage and it goes like this: You can be right or you can be happy. Indeed! Amichai’s poem inspired me to create, “The Little Mole Club.” Credo: Undermining Certainties; Radiating Happiness. Now Open! New members being accepted every single day! The price of admission: All [...]
I’ve Got You Now By Rumi My face free of sorrow, my mouth full of wine, my clothes torn off my body. Look what you’ve done to me now. He says, That’s what I do. I tear away the layers. I melt the shame. I reveal the unrevealed. He moves too fast. One breath, he [...]
POEM OF THE MONTH ~ MAY 2011 May you know True Happiness, which wants only to bless you, unceasingly. Such grace does abound. It is already so, as you read these words. –Krayna The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni HAPPINESS There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns [...]
You’ve heard the Buddhist wisdom of “die a thousand deaths”? I find, as I stop more often during each day to allow myself to be present, I am aware of the millions of times I fall back into conditioned thinking and my heart is broken over and over by circumstances, by people I love, even by the [...]
I said to God, but how can you love me? I said to God, I am sorry. I said to God, I am sorry but I don’t want to change. I said to God, Please. But I did not know if I meant please help me or please go away, please let me be your [...]
I longed for the fog yesterday, something to cover my world in dense grey mist, an external manifestation of my internal lostness, that terrible sense that I’m not sure why I’m here or where I’m going. Instead, it was gloriously sunny outside. And the stargazer lilies were finally beginning to bloom, offering up their enchanting [...]
It’s not breathing that’s hard
From this underwater grotto
It’s crying the tears
To fill the lake
Because a frozen pond
Is hard to animate
Unless a beam burns deep.
Poem of the Month ~ December 2010 May you use this season of long nights to enter the dark fertility of your imagination. Think thoroughly wild thoughts, dream impossible dreams, feel the truth your body yearns for you to know. In this season, may you gift yourself with long-needed rest and feel nourished by a [...]
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