Very difficult moment in time.To be deeply compassionate now...even to the many too many who voted for the second coming literally and biblically is bursting my seams."It's either sadness or euphoria" as Billy Joel so presciently sings.Give it a listen.It lays a fine bead on our human condition.Changing, changing, nothing stays the same.Dogen implored...Just sit zazen.So I sit.A tiny dot in the vastness of the void and the myriad beings flowing within and without.
Dear Sal, I hear you! Really like "the life in wrack and ruin" and rats loom large in my life, too, though that I dwell not in thine immediate environs (also like your sporadic slipping into such olde speeche!) How I'm doing? I'm trying to go for a walk at least once a day. I'm translating my nightmares into other languages. I'm making regular visits to the wonderful library! And I'm collecting texts about darkness for a reading at year's end. Also, of course, I'm hoping and trusting, against all the odds, that things will start to get better soon! Keep on walking and gathering and writing and posting your songs! Hugs! N.
Nick! I am do glad to hear how you are doing, how you are walking. I think of you often, and of you translating, and of the beautiful act of translation. You too keep doing and keep close.
This is haunting! The way you fold destruction into resilience, the rat as poet and survivor, the body as both fleeting and infinite, absolutely gripping.
"It’s my feeling that we are always all in, whether we realize it or not."
Ah! Already hath my day been made! :-) Will carry this in my head on my walk to the library! xx
Very difficult moment in time.To be deeply compassionate now...even to the many too many who voted for the second coming literally and biblically is bursting my seams."It's either sadness or euphoria" as Billy Joel so presciently sings.Give it a listen.It lays a fine bead on our human condition.Changing, changing, nothing stays the same.Dogen implored...Just sit zazen.So I sit.A tiny dot in the vastness of the void and the myriad beings flowing within and without.
Yes the difficult moment, yes changing changing, yes sitting zazen, yes vastness, yes myriad beings.
Thanks for this! I feel like I am rafting down a river as I read your words, sometimes a slow and quiet moment, sometimes the rapids.
If you have not heard of the Karna Mati Temple in India, it’s worth a look. 25,000 rats live there and are worshipped.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karni_Mata_Temple
As for the poker …after the election I felt like I was looking at a 9 and a 2, but could not fold. Looks like I’m going to have to push all-in.
Wow! Thank you for sharing the holy rat temple! It’s my feeling that we are always all in, whether we realize it or not.
Congratulations on your new sitting group!
Dear Sal, I hear you! Really like "the life in wrack and ruin" and rats loom large in my life, too, though that I dwell not in thine immediate environs (also like your sporadic slipping into such olde speeche!) How I'm doing? I'm trying to go for a walk at least once a day. I'm translating my nightmares into other languages. I'm making regular visits to the wonderful library! And I'm collecting texts about darkness for a reading at year's end. Also, of course, I'm hoping and trusting, against all the odds, that things will start to get better soon! Keep on walking and gathering and writing and posting your songs! Hugs! N.
Nick! I am do glad to hear how you are doing, how you are walking. I think of you often, and of you translating, and of the beautiful act of translation. You too keep doing and keep close.
This is haunting! The way you fold destruction into resilience, the rat as poet and survivor, the body as both fleeting and infinite, absolutely gripping.
Thank you, Hana!
This is absolutely gorgeous and devastating, Sal. 💜
Thank you! And thank you for sharing!
This is so lovely, so beyond lovely. I get lost in it in the loveliest way... 🍃❤️🍃
It’s good to be lost right now, yes.
endlessly optimistic & not delusional, full of poetry, thank you for this
It’s true, even at my darkest, hopelessly optimistic. xo
Also: you are such a beautiful and needed star. ❤️
I can't wait to see you next week angel