(Can’t believe I forgot to post this 9-months ago. I guess that’s the way life goes these days. But without further ado, these gratitudes are still deserved and owed…) ********** Sitting on my little porch…
Browsing Category on gratitude
The Inheritance of Travel (in response to the prompt: How did you get here?)
There are stories in my body that I could tell: Of the hip sway I found in the lead of a grey-haired woman with a sign on her Antigua door that read, “salsa lessons.” Of…
ode to snowplow
Ode to snow plow. Dearest snow plow, Will you ever know? The way your rumble up the street, Cuts a tantrum in two. The morning pro-clothes argument (any clothes mind you) Tossed in the air…
something feels fleeting
Something feels fleeting. The deaths and beginnings. Watching the sun set from above. While samsara cycles below. Who am I to steal a seat in God’s balcony? Who am I entitled to so many reincarnations…
ripe for the tilling; thank you merc
Yes! Solbeam.com just went through a dishwasher of a reorganization and I’ve now got 543 posts in which to fix broken links and sort into the appropriate shelves and drawers. More importantly, I should be…
17,000 feet of appreciations
IMG_7585, originally uploaded by seekingsol. (A Punjabi man helps himself to Sangeta’s song on the first of many days of adventure on our way into the Dolpa.) <img src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3068/2627228383_98a5e45731.jpg?v=0″ You know when you begin to…
a stone on simmer
Handing me back the piece of paper with the single word on it, my student says, “Um. I’m not sure I know what this is…” Part of the mission of my work (in experiential education)…
a blessing recipe
Popes, priests and prophets have their methods. Merchants, and those who buy from them, name it in terms of this or that currency. But the value and blessing upon any object, for me, cannot be…
love, picasso, parades & pilgrimage
So for the record, I am now officially giving exact change, correctly ordering vegetarian food, and making it three or (sometimes!) even four sentences deep into conversations. It’s probably not particularly exciting for anyone else,…