When we try to understand anything, most of us have at our disposal the ability to think, to remember and to will. In other words, we tend to perceive and experience our lives in a way that brings together the faculties of mind, memory and will. …
LIGHTING THE WHOLE HOUSE
In order to see something, it has to be visible and we have to perceive it. Light is normally what is needed for sight. Sunlight naturally or artificially produced is what allows us to see concrete things in this world, However, we also have the capacity to recognize both that we are seeing and what we are seeing.…
THE MERCY VISIT
In some sense, I am a planner. Over the years, I have planned vacations by doing research, booking excursions, and creating itineraries. Most times that has made for a very pleasant and often predictable trip. What is exhilarating I have found, though, are the in-between spaces that I build into the vacation where nothing is planned. …
Looking for a Pelican
You came in October
In a thousand wings
Nothing particular
Just one in the many
Fishing and flying
From lake to lake
Eating your fill
Delighting the seer
As time went by
The numbers declined
The lakes fished over
‘Til 12 left on a log
In the evening, taking turns
Each landed to rest
Gliding and clumsy
In imaginal grace
Until just one
Stands in the shallow
As I from the bank
Share the silence
Day after day
We sit and see
The heart beating
Across the rippled wet
Alas, Now I can’t find you
The many in the one-
Where have you gone…
Where have I gone?…
BUTTERFLY SPACE
There is a sense, I believe, where life can be viewed as a series of ‘leaving’ and ‘remaining.’ More to the point perhaps, things and people, come and go. Inasmuch as we seem designed as humans to seek that which is most certain and everlasting, much of life on face value seems to be exactly the opposite of this. …