waiting for the next step
Right where you are is where you need to be. Don’t fight it! Don’t run away from it! Stand firm! Take a deep breath. And another. And another. Now, ask yourself: Why is this in my world? What do I need to see?
Trees are beginning to turn.
They turn toward me.
They walk with me,
along the turning road.
Teach me, friends,
the grace
of turning.
_______________
Weather Report
Release,
as the winds of grace
lift from you
the burdens
of all you possess.
Changing winds
will shift what you think you need;
expect heavy things
to precipitate out of your life.
__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
~
Liberty —
as observed on the cutting room Floor
*
* *
the level of some on a rise
this — after a thing
not
to convey
the hierarchical
like
— a more personal cosmos
& more so, thankfully
if you like —
enumeration of virtue
versus irony of some displeasure
not innately obvious
until
upon closer inspection
that heady feeling —
as after just tasting a fine wine
— is your
cue
do you see now — I know you
perhaps
more than you imagined
rumination
is following inspection in
some
logical process —
your
flow
fashioned from scraps..
~
m.e.
9/16
(c) ‘17 miguel.J.escobar
Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action.
It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, un-conflicted participation in the moment you are in – when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.
~ Erich Schiffmann
“In music, silence is more important than sound… Always listen for what you can leave out.” ~Miles Davis
❤️
Everything is destructible
Everybody is replaceable
The silence between the notes, however long or short, make the music
listen close, your song is always playing
just beneath the white noise
life is flow
flow is life
Deconstruction can be a beautiful process
unexpected beauty is revealed in surprising places and faces
the tiniest pieces – scraps even –
can make a lovely prayer shawl
to cover the coldest lonely spaces
or warm the shattered hearts
Fall teaches us the beauty of letting go
into the arms of dismantling the fences we construct
peace only comes with surrender at the proper time
times fullness births us into the light over and over
catching our awed breath we bow
colors we’re not familiar with brighten our fields of flowers 3′ below
our golden footsteps
then are immediately washed away by moon tide and wind rivers
yet forever remain as layers of transformation for every footstep passing there-after
each day’s sun sets with soft grace
the most grateful never forget to say,
‘Thank you so very much for this blessed day of life’
☀️
Amy Lloyd
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Sun is trying to shine
It is Autumn of the first year
I watch for red sumac signs
For heavenly mentors
For wisdom women to approach my front door.
For memory to return to this earth
Without the parallel movements of here and beyond
But that does not exist any longer.
There is a place more sacred and tender
Where we hold on
We listen through
We pass between.
A gap, perhaps
And yet,
There is no compromise
Pure invitation
That what is gone
Is merely illusion
And death has never won.
It is now the twenty-fourth year
Of Autumn
And what I had assumed was loss,
Is merely shadow on the bark of an aspen tree
In the woods of the North.
Rain comes in the middle of the morning,
Ducks pass by on the pond
Jesus comes for conversation
We share two Adirondack chairs
A cup of apple spice tea
While I read Hafiz.
We are now old friends
Beauty,
Rev. Donna Knutson
life: acoustic & amplified 
