37th Dream/ Rumors of Peace at Sunrise Sunrise Sunrise Sunrise Sunrise Sunrise Sunrise

Deep peace of the shining star to you, Deep peace of the running wave to you, Deep peace of the quiet earth to you, Deep joy of the leaping ...

In a recent dream, the message from my old friend was "Send Love."

View of San Francisco obscured by fog (see webcam) Viewed from a different angle (see webcam) When I looked out at Scudder Pond this morning...

Just want to thank all for thoughtful and much-appreciated blog comments since my old friend died on April 20. Still feeling disoriented but...

My old friend died peacefully yesterday at 1:15 p.m. Many thanks to all for your kind thoughts and prayers during this time. The images and ...

Encounter As I continue to prepare to travel to California for a visit with an old friend in a VA hospital, I am feeling more sorrow than wo...

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding -- Yehuda Amichai (photo taken at Half Moon Bay, California, in 1970)

While searching for a poem or song to go with this flower, I heard one of my neighbors shout to his dog, "Cosmo!" My cat, Oboe, wo...

". . . they are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever . . . " (Leonard Cohen)

Did anyone else hear the thunder between 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock this morning? See I-Ching, Hexagram 25. Wu Wang / Innocence (The U...

TWO INNOCENTS WITH EXPERIENCE (2000) All desire. No forgiveness. Years later it was early spring with red-winged blackbird, Goldfinch, faith...

Woke up. Read for awhile. Couldn't go back to sleep. Toasted some raisin bread and dipped it in olive oil. Found the above image on Saus...

DAY AFTER TOMORROW I got your letter Today An' I miss you oh so much here I can't wait To see you all And I'm counting the days...

I'll look for you in old Honolulu, San Francisco, Ashtabula, Yer gonna have to leave me now, I know. But I'll see you in the sky abo...

"He who has wheat, share it." (African proverb) The Four Noble Truths The truth of suffering: The truth of the cause of suffering:...

My dad died on St. Patrick's Day in 2003, about a month after he turned 89 years old and just a few days before the Iraq War began. For ...

Painted in gouache and watercolor on a watercolor paper block by Old Girl Of The North Country in 2006. "So-called sentimental, transce...

The thin blue book in the lower center of the photo is a well-worn copy of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali that I bought after my mother died i...

Yesterday I completed the emptying of my storage unit. I feel as if I have moved away from a place where I lived longer than I needed to. It...