We were an unlikely quartet alongside the Snoqualmie River’s South Fork the tall and lumbering Taiwanese student towering over the thin and lanky American teen the energetic dog pulling the 50-something suitor up the trail and me the other 50-something tracking literary allusions stopping for expansive breaths murmuring metta blessings closing my eyes to receive […]
Archive for the ‘Existential’ Category
Twin Falls
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Mortality, Photos, Waterfall on September 24, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Unwitting Witness
Posted in Birds, Death/Loss/Grief, Ducks, Mortality, Poetry on March 19, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll say I’m anthropomorphizing reading too much into things projecting making something out of nothing making it about me.
Darkness Drops
Posted in Aging, Fear, impermanence, Protest, Time on February 26, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919)
Seeing in the Dark
Posted in Existential, Renewal/rebirth on October 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Hours before an autumn sunrise would erase the morning darkness I kept the lights off hoping to learn what remains when I cannot see.
Accident(al)
Posted in Existential, Time on September 11, 2016 | 2 Comments »
Too cliché to say life changes in a blink the flash the overturn