Western horizon, dawn, Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico

Tucson Rain

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Saguaro rib walking staff

Bleached grey

Desiccated nearly weightless

A solar artifact

Swinging alongside sandal crunch

On pathway gravel, sand, cobble

Footfall & pendulum

The only sense of time

Trailside flattop rock

Waist high prominence

Fold into lotus to cushion ankles

Sanüks under butt for balance

Virga aloft cloud shadows dancing

Paloverde, ocotillo, chenille prickly pear

Immediacy quickening thirst

Expectant, hushed, listening

Stripped down to simplicities

These austerities, xeriscapes

Droplets that do reach the ground

Nothing less than breath

Richard, sunset glow, FC-CO, NOV-09

Five Qualities and Three Processes

Five qualities of awakening, enlightening: get these right all the time and your life will be beautiful!

1. Yes

2. No

3. Hello

4. Goodbye

5. I love you

Have your yes and your no, your hellos and goodbyes, constantly emerging from the heart (the I love you), in the face of these three processes that occur:

1. Attraction (Pull)

2. Aversion (Push)

3. Ignorance (Denial)

That's about it, that's about all.

"WindHenge", Park Point Beach Sculpture, Duluth, Memorial Day, 2009

Spearhead from MIll's Lake, RMNP, Oct-2006

Long's Peak from Hallett Peak, RMNP, Oct-1-2006

Young Richard

Spires near Andrew's Glacier, Rocky Mountain National Park, Oct-7-2006

Welcome to Auroville

Friends,

Here is a link to a beautiful video on Auroville, which I am sure you will enjoy!

http://www.auroville.org/gallery/videos/Vannakkam.htm

Buckie, Monterey California, November 2009

Aspen Leaves and Dew

Young Buckie

Off the mountain, returned from the source of Boren Creek, emerging from scree above the ribbon falls

a visit from tara

you came to me in dream last night
evocative of promised bliss
treasured perfection of love
impossibly separate & distinct yet within

having searched for you everywhere
discovering you at last so close, so dear
effortlessly erasing the boundaries
yet so spontaneously unique

this ancient history of attachment
mere child's play now
those lessons, which through your heart
have become so richly blessed

the smile upon your lips washing
heart & mind & soul
awakening to your rich presence
your quickening virtue

your gracious forbearance of imperfection
as faltering and stumbling
these patterns of limitation
exhaust themselves

you have always been here for me
in many guises, many forms

so generously adapting yourself
to my needs, my fears

as transcendent love awakens
transforming mortal clay
this incandescent crucible
your being's energetic caress

juxtaposition

essential presence
nearer than these senses
these thoughts

awakening touch
the depths of the heart
ever opening now
within

all these fictional lives
future through past born
converging this instant
nowhere else

this cloud of unknowing
this goodly gentle fall
this yearning watchfulness
patience borne

excruciating bliss
joyous pain
extenuating circumstance
right as rain

silence as vast as
those angels that dance
on the head of
a pin

dimensions myriad as sands
beached here tonight
washed up
these waves

just another breath
and another
that's the way
it is

and this flame
burning through
everything