A Journey Through the Underworld

Last night I car­ried into my sleep the ten­sions I live with while awake — the same ten­sions many car­ry right now. I felt cramped, smoth­ered, yet I could­n’t escape from the place where I found myself. I was part of a slow-mov­ing hor­ror, a crazy dark­ness. Then grad­u­al­ly, some­thing of life and san­i­ty returned… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Jour­ney Through the Underworld

On Abuse of Human Freedom

I asked that div­ina­tion tool, The I Ching (The Book of Changes) what to do in the wake of last week’s shock­ing elec­tion results. It told me first to keep still (Hexa­gram 52. Kên | Keep­ing Still, Moun­tain) for awhile, with move­ment in the sec­ond line, sug­gest­ing there is an unstop­pable tra­jec­to­ry to the sit­u­a­tion,… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Abuse of Human Freedom

When the Animals Come

When the ani­mals come, pay atten­tion. Even if it is only a bush wren danc­ing among the branch­es, stop for a moment and praise this lit­tle being. She knows a deep­er lan­guage than you may ever share. It does­n’t have to be some grandiose, inflat­ed mir­a­cle – the white stag high up against the sky or the house lion… Con­tin­ue read­ing When the Ani­mals Come