Living Poetry, Tending Joy

Joy lives like a Jonquil in winter,just beneath the surfaceand still very alive.Invisible sometimes, yes-here memory assists(of a pitcher filled wi...

Here's a meditation I wrote for The Honey Sutras, and found it so useful that I put it into a later edition of Good Mother, Welcome...and The Joy B...

These words from Rabindranath Tagore have long captured the essence of what Joy means to me.  It can be beneficial to consider that REALIZATION is...

I've been creating these little posts for Instagram.... poems and pointers that might spark a feeling of joy.... Joy as in an alignment with Spirit...

  I've long appreciated the Taoist/Buddhist teachings of life being a mix of ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows.  Life is not without sorr...

Beyond these words..... it has always been here.... a poem from WILD SONG

  This poem is found in the books, WILD SONG, as well as BEFRIENDING THE SOUL  and is also available for purchase as a CARD.

Kahlil Gibran's reflections on work...so inspiring!

What if recognizing diamonds was enough to make them yours,
and you saw them now everywhere....?
Poem from the book WHAT HOLDS US

This is the poem Tara Brach shared with her meditation group.

To offer community...and conversation.... a place of creativity, love & belonging...

A song, a video, an inquiry, all inspired by the Sarah Teasdale poem, "Life has loveliness to sell."