An injured merlin opens the door to the way in which grief and joy are so bewilderingly intertwined in our hearts. BY DEREK FURR
Tag: change
Elizabeth Bishop – Little Exercise
Written when she was living in Key West in the 1930s and 40s, Bishop was inspired by the uneasy beauty of the tropical storms there.
Erik Manuel Soto – Séance Under a Lunar Eclipse
Witness how endings give way to change through the serpentine form of Erik Manuel Soto's "Séance Under a Lunar Eclipse".
Deep Down Things
True presence demands attention beyond the self, and a reckoning with the vastness of the other lives that shape our world. BY DEREK FURR
patricia a. heisser métoyer – Mastodon
Existence is a state of constant flux, as is what it means to be sacred. patricia a. heisser métoyer displays this in her epic "Mastodon".
Ice Over
Change drives our lives forward; our emotions fuel the trip. BY JULIA ROBINSON SHIMIZU
‘Flecks of Foam on the Boar’s Mouth’ – Marcus Aurelius on Everyday Magic
The Roman Emperor and philosopher on mortality, change, nature and the importance of paying attention to the small and beautiful details.
Ellen Girardeau Kempler – Jet Lag
Ellen Girarardeau Kempler's "Jet Lag" places us in the rugged Arizona desert and takes us back into the furthest expanses of geologic time.
Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness
Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.
Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi – Faraway, near Nordfjordeid
Redolent with the folklore of the cold north, Cuban-American poet Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi offers a magical poem, "Faraway, near Nordfjordeid".