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Procrastination

I woke at 6:59 this morning and saw that it wasn’t in the cards. So I read. Poetry. Lyrically sabotaging belief with knowing, I’ve questioned the way. What happened to commitment and choice to see it...

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Hopscotch & Lucky Charms

Childhood gourmet They play catch. The football of childhood has moved quickly to midlife. Games remain the same. The meaning has changed. With age, wisdom; the reality of impermanence, and the gift of...

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…and then the words came calling

Every day. That’s been the commitment. Choosing not to say “my” commitment as to separate myself from being committed in case I change my mind. Lapse. It haunts me still. Write. The words came calling...

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A lifetime together

I have missed writing to you. Seems the words left when ‘Tis the Season’ rolled around and gratitude for the joys took precedence over the words. Still, I am grateful for you, and to you as you have...

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We accept ourselves in order to allow ourselves to |Be|

Somewhere in time I closed myself off from the world. Unknowingly. Disconnected myself from what it means to feel. Unbeknownst to me. Shut the door to exploration for the comfort of solitude. Lost...

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I promise

The movement of promises I used to write to you. Long single words inside of short, fragmented sentences just to get close. I’ve stopped writing. The words…I cannot tell whether or not they come...

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We close a door|We open to vastness

I. All things end inside of space and time. The tangible quickly fades behind the backdrop of what was. It is no longer. Things change. Inside of change we find freedom. This is the truth of life and...

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The Beginning: Day 1|30|

                                           It is a practice How long it has been. I sit here now with the tips of my fingers touching the soul of a being. How lost were you when all that was ever...

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I am, and I am becoming: Day 2 |30|

                   There exists no separation. |the One|the One who seeks| I thought about being perfect a time or two, thought about possessing all the answers to questions both asked and unasked, but...

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Dogma: Day 3|30|

      Seek the blank page. Write. Was it ever meant to be real? I thought it inspired and was to be a gesture of inspiration that somehow tangled inside the hands of |e|go. How closed-minded its way....

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Distracted: Day 4|30|

How easy it is to skip, as though down streets becoming blocks turning into lifetimes of being separated from truth. Distracted. It sneaks up on me like a thief in the night even when the light of the...

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To be reflective: Day 5|30|

    Reflection. In each moment do I look within. It is there that I find the truth of all things. Answers. Questions. The road leads always to the core where chaos loses to calm, where the external...

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To be present: Day 6|30|

      When nothing else is. |Quiet| Ever so grateful. Life. It surprises me in moments never before seen. Horizon. So much over the rainbow that the eyes have yet to fall upon. Vast. It is all there...

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The impermanence of being: Day 13|30|

It slips by like a breeze. Time. It fades in the way of clouds moving before our very eyes, yet unseen. It comes and it goes. It is the going that takes us away, causes us to remember what was, what is...

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The timelessness of time

It has been a while, but what is the a while that has been when life moves still? Motion. There are no delays. The breeze happens even when we feel stagnant, stuck in the quicksand that is our emotion....

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Absent of inspiration

Cambodia, Tonle Bati I haven’t been inspired for quite some time now. I realize that’s the issue. The problem. The reason for this absence in my writing. Initially I thought that I was on hiatus, then...

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The looking glass

We are saved from ourselves in the moment of going within. We see. The light shines only on the |E|ye who looks toward. Nowhere|Everywhere. The beginning is also the ending. The cycle of life promises...

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“Go within,” He said.

I am writing a book, one that has already been written. Nothing has come for the first time. All things have before existed. Truth. Yet I press them firmly; my fingers to keys as though to create is...

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Be here now

It’s been on my mind so much that it’s occupying physical space and time, at least this is how it seems. What is it about being haunted by the nature of one’s very being? That’s how it feels. It creeps...

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3|31| Days of clarity

goettner.com Each moment is a practice even when we align our actions with our intention. It takes effort. It takes mindfulness. It takes practice. Nothing continues as we desire unless we open before...

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