A Desert Bird's Winter Weekend: More Pictures, Few Words

By The Time You Read This . . .

I will be off into the woods at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center for a much needed long weekend of sitting and silence.

I haven't been up since last November. It will be good to reconnect with everyone there.

Including myself.

"Who is the self that I will be reconnecting with?"

Dude, just shut up with the questions and sit!!

Morning Coffee w/ Poetry & Birds

Lullaby of Entropy

How do you pray for
faith?
Wind without sound
wakes voices from other
things.
Earn your way
back into being
by saying
the silence after the
music.


Be Generous
In Your Thoughts, Deeds, And Things

No one understands
the subtle work of small grey birds--
what will count
is the tenderness evoked
in those who come after
remembered breath, unconfused words.
All things fear not to live.
Awareness, not fear,
is our humanity.


Poems by Terrance Keenan in his wonderful book St. Nadie in Winter: Zen Encounters with Loneliness