Category Archives: Art of the Path

The Path

We know what we know, and I knew it was up in the heavens somewhere. When I was young I’d look up at the moon or the star-filled sky with a silent plea to be taken back. I drew a … Continue reading

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B is for the boy

B is for the boy in college who thought a date was inviting me up to his attic room and playing a record while he read aloud from the dictionary. He was in love with words. I caught on eventually … Continue reading

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H is for Heart

H is for Heart. O is for Open. F is for Feeling a Frequency, and L is for the Love that opens the Heart to the higher Light. I didn’t learn this with my ABCs. My child-self with her open … Continue reading

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The Memory of Light

You’re out walking and look up, and the color of the sky stops you in your tracks. You’ve never seen such a light, such a color as this rose-pink before. The sky is aflame with it. Continue reading

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Cue the Mending Basket

Every actor must know their cues, which means we all do if we believe as Shakespeare did… All the world’s a stage, all the men and women merely players. Today my cue is a paean to the Mending Basket, also … Continue reading

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Being Ready

  I thought it was always ‘now.’ Ram Das said, “Be here now,” so if I was here, wasn’t it now? Being born with the surname of Wait only helped if I remembered, and ‘to wait’ doesn’t actually mean to … Continue reading

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Being on Timers

The day I knew I had an inner timer was the day I heard a dinging in my soul. Continue reading

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Making Your Unknown Known

When I went to London in the late 1960s I brought a sword with me on the plane. (It was allowed in those days.) I was bringing it over for a friend. Seven years later, when it became time for … Continue reading

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Notes on a Sequel

Life can strip you of everything. What it cannot do is take away your inner being. For that is yours and yours alone.    Continue reading

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Down Down Down

…down-down-down, back into the darkness I went with my paints and brushes. To paint the dark. To see what I’d left behind. Continue reading

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