like clockwork ~

the trumpeters of spring ~

a place setting ~

I hear it in the deep heart's core ~

 I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

 I will arise and go now, for always night and day
 I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

immortal ~

give us this day ~

i think that covers my version of the word dog ~

 Love includes accepting others and being noble, reasonable, openhearted, resourceful, and free of possessiveness. With love, you are totally gentle, utterly kind, thorough, wise, fearless, and willing to commit yourself to any situation. You are warrriorlike, industrious, tireless, and never take time off for yourself. I think that the covers the Buddhist version of the word love.

 Chogyam Trungpa - “Love, Vision, and Warriorship” in The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Two

to arrive where we started ~

An excerpt from Little Gidding from the Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

happy new moon! -

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the ants are busy -

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the challenge of rudolf steiner ~

reflections of a mud puddle ~

green velvet ~

we once were giants ~

a co-mingling is in the air ~

a convergence ~