the courage of theo fleury ~

Finding the light at the end of a very challenging road.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2010-2011/thefallandriseoftheofleury/

upon reflection ~

curvacious ~

breakthroughs ~

alone but together ~

composed and conducted by eric whitacre

reaching out ~

snow drops and a robin ~

crocus ~

a privilege ~

morning song ~

no room at the inn ~

the sound of the geese ~

As the marsh melts the geese are arriving. Already in pairs. You can hear them honking during the day and at night. I haven't quite been able to find the words to describe the sound, the vibration, and how it makes me feel. It is on the tip of my tongue, but I can't turn it into an utterance just yet...but in some deep part of my heart I recognize that they speak for me and in doing so they somehow acknowledge and call forth the heartache that is there.

lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu ~

bleak beauty ~

for leila ~

stay close ~

turning the corner on winter ~

I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes. Come on and let it show.




music brought to you by Wet Wet Wet, the lovely Scottish band.

super-ordinariness ~

When we first experience true ordinariness, it is something very extraordinarily ordinary, so much so that we would say that mountains are not mountains any more or streams streams any more, because we see them as so ordinary, so precise, so "as they are." This extraordinariness derives from the experience of discovery. But eventually this super-ordinariness, this precision, becomes an everyday event, something we live with all the time, truly ordinary, and we are back where we started: the mountains are mountains and streams are streams. Then we can relax.

Chogyam Trungpa from Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism