THE KNOWING POINT

WHAT IS THE POINT OF KNOWING? As I’m walking, I come to the known point. And like the Zen adage — “right now, in everything that informs me, I know only what I know — I know nothing more.” What that intones is that the grasp of human...

ENTRANCEMENT

THE ENTRANCE TO TRANCE BEING IN BALI, I’d heard about ceremonies of trance — the dream state of otherworldly reckoning. Being in Bali is a trance — and surely, it is an entrance to another world. Would that be entrancement? BEING IN A DARK TUNNEL, I...

RELENTLESSNESS

I WILL STRIDE, WITHOUT RELENT, UNSTOPPING IN THE TIDE OF TIME — AND CEASE NOT, THE TURNING SEAS, SIEZE: TILL THE SEASON — NO MORE. As I contemplate the relentless, it’s so — that the movement of anything, everything, continues, far beyond our...

the word, changed

when I draw this word in the sand, it changed with the time, the softening wind and the tides — the movement of the world changed that story told, finger in sand. And story became something wondrously new and alive — until: it vanished. “I wrote the...