Melville looked for an “insular Tahiti” and you know what, that’s not a bad idea. The notion that you can go with the flow and be in the place that feels right is related to this island within your being. There are so many things that pull on us you’d think we’d come with...
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So I said, “Self…”
Unsure and unsteady in any sort of practice, I rely on notes to myself as reminders of ways of being that seem good enough to try and beneficial. The idea that a practice is something that leads to a deeper place of residence within your own being has come to be through those...
This is dedicated
This is dedicated to the ones I love. In the past my heart and head have proved fickle. Or was it pickled. I know a pickle a day keeps the doctor away because that is the truth I learned from those sellers of pickles in wooden barrels. I know that the heart of a...
The start of many conversations
from Conversations with Nic Why do travelers tell their tales? To give them the concrete qualities of the witness. Witness my dreams, journeys and thoughts. These are all real. Reality is no longer the horseshoe pounded out by the blacksmith of time. Witnesses are the waters that the traveler baptizes themselves in. With the...
Two tea teetoallers
Two tea teetotallers topped it off with a cup of tea. It wasn’t peppermint tea. No, that wasn’t going to do. It wasn’t chamomile tea either although they wondered about the fields of popping yellow flowers all across Europe and wherever else it might grow. Golden fields of flowers that were just a cup...
Heirloom beans and beings
Someone I really respect once asked me, “Are you a human being or a human doing?” Up until I discovered heirloom beans I had the modern ability to make this question a dilemma despite time, experience and the overall aging process. These days I feel as though I have found the answer. There’s a...
Attic to the stars
We’re going to watch for the Leonid meteor showers. Most people I know have not had a lot of successful meteor shower viewings. For one thing, they’re not always reliable. And these days its hard to find people willing to lie outside in the cold and damp waiting for them. It’s also getting harder to get...
Ears schmeers
It has come to my attention that my cat must breathe through her ears. Watching Molly’s head sink into the window sill, with most of her body up on the fake sheepskin cover, I watched her face go into the wood of the sill. She might as well have had a cork up each little nostril....
the thing is
Almost everything has seemed like something else for a long time. That’s the thing. I’m not sure when this started. I do not believe this is a thing of getting older either since I’m fairly certain that this has been going on since I was young. It has not been diagnosed before or studied...
The controlled ding
All my cars have all been old. I never lived with the fear of a ding or little bump or a cart in the supermarket parking lot. I have had other concerns. What happens, for instance, if aliens come to our neighborhood? It seems really certain that aliens in suburbia are nothing but trouble....
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