Category: Reflections and Poems

Straw for the Fire

Recent­ly, med­i­tat­ing, I had one of the those strong expe­ri­ences when words sim­ply appear in my mind. They come to me as if from some remote, sub­con­scious part that requires my full atten­tion. And I lis­ten. The words hap­pened to be, “straw for the fire.” This was per­haps three weeks ago and I am still… Con­tin­ue read­ing Straw for the Fire

Struggling to Find the Heart

strug­gling to find the heart many focus­ing on dark­ness won’t see won’t wait for a tiny bud of light won’t see how it gath­ers to itself shat­ter­ing the whole huge black pearl at once how the sky explodes petal upon irre­ducible petal a man­dala becomes a world a mir­ror a self yet if just a few of us notice over… Con­tin­ue reading 

Strug­gling to Find the Heart

Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday is Today

This one sure­ly goes in the cat­e­go­ry of “lead­er­ship poems”. A friend passed it along to me and I’ve repost­ed from this site. Tru­ly beau­ti­ful. A won­der­ful day to hon­or Nel­son Man­dela, feel and express grat­i­tude. [Adden­dum: 7/19/08: Miki Sax­on of Lead­er­ship Turn and David Zinger of Slack­er Man­ag­er point to a fine arti­cle about… Con­tin­ue read­ing Nel­son Mandela’s 90th Birth­day is Today

Morning Glories

Recent­ly a friend, founder of a suc­cess­ful finan­cial ser­vices firm, shared this obser­va­tion with me: . “My per­cep­tion is that peo­ple des­per­ate­ly need depth con­veyed in a sim­plis­tic man­ner that they can grasp and use in their dai­ly liv­ing.” The con­text is a con­ver­sa­tion between us about the jour­ney each per­son faces in mov­ing out of indi­vid­ual… Con­tin­ue read­ing Morn­ing Glories