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It came and it went. I gazed upon the inevitability with the broken heart of a lover. I begged, I wept, I tried to halt the course and drag out the homeostasis. Change is hard for everyone. The complacency of the status quo has a familiar draw, as if I bonded with where I was […]
September 1, 2011
Can you just sit there perfectly content with something you consider good and pure and just hug someone you love and say, “I love you too” with no ulterior or preconceived notions of expectation and conditions for love. If you can, never forget what made you hurt and made you kind. Because life is a […]
August 15, 2011
it crept up on me because I never actually realized how deeply in the gut it lay. It was always there. From the beginning of my memory it was manifest as a feeling, the vague taste of queasiness that tinged every discomfort, but it was so pervasive I didn’t know what to identify it or […]
August 12, 2011
If I could share one bundled truth secret I wish someone had told me and that I’d had the wisdom to understand, the kind of truth that your life might depend on one day, it would be this: Never despair. Never give up because there is an end in sight. Never give up on yourself. […]
August 12, 2011
As a practice, I make Buddhist meditation prayer beads. On occasion a Buddhist practitioner or a Buddhist-curious person finds out I make malas and ask what they need to pay to have me make them one. I find it is karmic that they cross my path and then that they ask or that I offer; so […]
December 10, 2010
You will remember, like a quick wisp, a small flutter… there, then gone. You will remember the way you prowled the streets and the way your fingers brushed across the twilight. You will remember the buzzing of little bees and the extent of the silence. You will remember conflict and loss, thickets of berries, the […]
November 12, 2010
When it happened, it was a big deal, and it hurt hugely, and it was natural that’s why I feared it I think, because I knew it was inevitable. I look back at how many times I almost kept trying to brace for it in the form of tensing in my gut, emotionally negotiating at […]
October 25, 2010
May I be a guardian for those with no guardian, a pathfinder for those who are on the road, and a boat, a ship, a bridge for those who would cross. -Shantideva
October 21, 2010
I’ve been keeping scraps of paper mental notes of lifelong dialogues working out the daily knots within around the stone lodged in my chest creases of heartbreak punctuate and line your first fighting screaming wailing cry out the birth canal of change even if it’s all in your head loss kills you one breath at […]
October 18, 2010
Just as I’ve named it I’ve passed it like a highway I find it curious how much I want to cling to a road that stretches miles ahead and behind as far as I can see and time keeps ticking beneath me I see the seconds slip away ethereal and impersonal and still there I […]
Reset Your Heart Drive 
September 7, 2014
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