10/24/2009

Saturday morning

What a bleak, flat header. Sounds like staring at concrete walls, gutters and the plumbing elements at the back end of a building.

It is a cold morning. The temperature dropped overnight by about 30 degrees..it is about 46 degrees outside..unusual for Texas in October. Looking out through the window of course you would never know.

10/23/2009

Drenched in sunshine
Bathed in watercolor blue
What a beautiful day
Thank you God.

George Benson's beautiful rendition of California Dreamin' describes it best.

10/20/2009

The beach

Ripples in the sand
Memory of the wave that kissed the shore
In the misty morning when the world slept
Little red crabs scurried off
Eddies, swirls and rockpools
Bits of mica glinting in the sun
Laughing, twinkling sand

10/19/2009

Rhythm

Day in, day out
Tide in, tide out
Dust to dust
Sand to sand
Rarely, a blinding flash of azure sky.

Weekday, weekend
Pre ms, post ms
Never a good time, is it?
Look in, look out
Stand in, stand out, stand by.

10/17/2009

Evanescence

Nothing matters, really. We are inclined to take ourselves far too seriously. Not homes, jobs, cars, money, prestige, pelf...irrelevant in the cosmic scheme of things. When I think of the Universe around me, I shrink to an atom, miniscule, insignificant to the insignificant. It makes cipher of my troubles and puts my life in perspective. When I think of the Universe within me, I realize I am not even me..I am part of the Infinite and my name is Love..nothing else matters, nothing at all.

I am here today, I will be ocean sand tomorrow..maybe a child will build a sandcastle with little particles of me. I will glint in the sun as mica, I will be pulled out by a loving wave- strong as a lover..I will drown in bliss.

10/14/2009

On Beauty

Have you ever been wounded by beauty? Have you seen, smelt, heard and felt so deeply that the memory of it branded your soul, seared your substance and made your heart burst with love and joy? It does not take much. For me, all I need to do is look at my child's snub nose and my heart contracts.

A dewdrop perched on the tip of a leaf, waiting to dive onto Demeter. Anthers, petals, sepals, scent..sun kissed. Open my eyes wider, inhale deeper and savor the touch of rose petals on my cheek.