Poetry, storytelling and song writing are members of the same family. I have a deep appreciation for the literary arts and believe that creative writing whatever its form, render a fleeting glimpse, a snippet of insight into the author’s inner world. To live an unexamined life is our greatest travesty and consequently we cannot grow as we are intended to without putting ourselves under a compassionate lens of scrutiny. Writing can do this by giving us a strategy to crystallize those fleeting thoughts and emotions that so often elude clarity and self knowing. Journaling, writing poetry can be a catharsis in this process leading to a new awareness of whom and what we are, warts and all. The journey of self discovery ultimately opens the door to the spiritual growth and evolution we so richly deserve.
And I Shall Be Grateful
"Gratitude is heaven itself" ~William Blake Woke up to inclement weather of the heart, turbulence in the slipstream of life; another day older, jury’s still out on the wisdom. Between gigs, in the lexicon of music; between [...]
Your House Upon the Hill
"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect". ~ Ralph Waldo EmersonYour pervasive only ness is the rustinvading the hingesbetween your worlds of here and there.You dismiss and banish thosewho will not surrender to your terms of;"this is how it [...]
What’s Blowing in the Wind
Friday morning,July, Hong Kongon my way to Stanleywaiting for the bus,warm breeze blowsbut cools me stillpeople watching,meandering thoughtsWhat’s blowing in the wind?Newspapers,it’s all badtroubled world, many ailsdistorted views,so much angerblind rage stoked by ignoranceand unwillingnessto seek that middle groundWhat’s blowing [...]
Be Here
Like the prudent mariner never trust your fate to just one map, A singular aid to navigation, pockets filled with promise, a basket full of eggs. Too many trials and tribulations in life to create predictability with any scientific authority. [...]
Life in the Snow Lane
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."~ Norman MailerThe aroma of coffee wafting through the airfinds my olfactory senses and drawsthis winter morning into focus.It’s [...]
I Am Here
"When you find a place where you are, practice begins" ~Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) Rainbow sun dogs frame the occluded sunon this prairie winter morning sky.Wide open spacedemarcated by a distant railroadadvocates forever,is anything forever?The rolling ranch lands speckled in [...]