“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” -Rumi … … … … … … … … There is a balance to the planet that us humans insist on trying to wrest awry. I still haven’t figured out why our natural inclination is to fight itContinue reading “Be notorious”
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From “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf, 1928
“The English disease, a love of Nature, was inborn in her, and here where Nature was so much larger and more powerful than in England, she fell into its hands as she had never done before… She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of the streams. She likened the hills toContinue reading “From “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf, 1928″
Poem 133: The Summer Day
Who made the world?Who made the swan, and the black bear?Who made the grasshopper?This grasshopper, I mean—the one who has flung herself out of the grass,the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—who is gazing around with her enormous and complicatedContinue reading “Poem 133: The Summer Day”
On Disobedience – Eric Fromme
“In order to disobey, one must have the courage to be alone, to err, and to sin. But courage is not enough…only if a person…has emerged as a fully developed individual and has thus acquired the capacity to think and feel for himself, only then can he have the capacity to say “no” to power,Continue reading “On Disobedience – Eric Fromme”
Thomas Merton, 1958
“At the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were strangers. It was like walking from a dreamContinue reading “Thomas Merton, 1958”
From the essay “Heroism”, 1841
“Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Witch-Wife
She is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun ‘tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading intoContinue reading “Witch-Wife”
There are a hundred ways to be lost. And even more ways to be found.
“Almost none of us commit suicide, and almost all of us self-destruct.”
It’s a cold and breezy morning here, wind is blustering in grey clouds and there’s a chill in the air that belongs on green Irish moors, not Texas in (almost) April. This morning I’m introspective and for the first time in weeks I didn’t wake with an overwhelming dread, anxiety closing off the world aroundContinue reading ““Almost none of us commit suicide, and almost all of us self-destruct.””
“Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Merton writes of solitaries that we are ‘a mute witness, a secret and even invisible expression of love which takes the form of their own option for solitude in preference to the acceptance of social fictions.’ And what love are weContinue reading
A Burd in Flight 