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Visiting Mama Sequoia

This summer, Suniti and David opened the gate of Shay and Claire’s garden (which is also Mama Sequoia’s garden, though I don’t know that trees feel belonging as claiming, in the way we’ve learned to do) and welcomed in anyone who wanted to spend some moments of silence in company with this long-lived spirit. ItContinue reading “Visiting Mama Sequoia”

Grief Inquiry 4

(May 28, 2021) Hello friends. This is the fourth of four weeks of shared inquiry around grief. I am trying to metabolize the isolations of this time. I feel the huge zoom-out of awareness that has come with so much coordinated loss. I desire many small ceremonies. These prompts are an effort to bring a quality ofContinue reading “Grief Inquiry 4”

Grief Inquiry 3

(May 21, 2021) Hello friends. This is the third of four weeks of shared inquiry around grief. I am trying to metabolize the isolations of this time. I feel the huge zoom-out of awareness that has come with so much coordinated loss. I desire many small ceremonies. These prompts are an effort to bring a quality ofContinue reading “Grief Inquiry 3”

Grief Inquiry 2

(May 14, 2021) Hello friends. This is the second of four weeks of shared inquiry around grief. I am trying to metabolize the isolations of this time. I feel the huge zoom-out of awareness that has come with so much coordinated loss. I desire many small ceremonies. These prompts are an effort to bring a quality of presenceContinue reading “Grief Inquiry 2”

Grief Inquiry 1

(May 7, 2021) Hello friends. This is the first of four weeks of shared inquiry around grief. I am trying to metabolize the isolations of this time. I feel the huge zoom-out of awareness that has come with so much coordinated loss. I desire many small ceremonies. These prompts are an effort to bring a quality ofContinue reading “Grief Inquiry 1”

thank you, norma

yesterday at the online conference the zen teacher norma, whose people were from the island called oahu, on the side where it rains everyday 200 years on the chinese side and 3,000 years on the native side, spoke of each place saying the ocean they call the pacific the country sometimes called america i feltContinue reading “thank you, norma”

wants and needs

3.29.09 Spring comes on apace. Buds nearly opening on JD’s cherry; the white magnolias by the Chinese garden in full bloom. Must take a walk around the neighborhood to see if any of our favorites from last year are going yet. Odd to think of how much suspense and unknowing was packed into this weekContinue reading “wants and needs”

today’s photo is of

today’s photo is of Me as the framer, behind the camera. I am not visible. And yet, I am always present in what I choose to show, in how I am reflected in the moments I witness, cultivate, memorialize, study. When I first conceived of the desire to make a writing practice out of witnessingContinue reading “today’s photo is of”

Let me belong

In 1983 I prayed to ducksa few geese, sometimes a seagull I went out to them, dressed, with my toes coveredDriven by coach to the edge of their water hostel Or, if I had the choice, in my nightgownBare feet on dew spiked suburban lawn Disordered placesWeb of relations hidden, gone Ceremonial scent of JuniperOfferingContinue reading “Let me belong”

On the phone

Little mama, talking to the spirits. Hello? hello? The solace of women all around, modeled in the kitchen, on the shows Alone? So often alone at home? Repetitive jobs to do, babies to hold Pick up the phone Cradle it to your tender face, ask to be held To be known … (After Alexis PaulineContinue reading “On the phone”