Tag Archives: letting go
Catch and release
Because the hook is too cruel, I offer softer lures, chumming the surface of the rivers you love: the cathedral light, the refuge of rocks, the small ballet of water striders walking the sky of your shimmering world. From which I might lift you for an instant, to remember the iridescence of your delicate, dappled […]
Catch and release
Because the hook is too cruel, I offer softer lures, chumming the surface of the rivers you love: the cathedral light, the refuge of rocks, the small ballet of water striders walking the sky of your shimmering world. From which I might lift you for an instant to remember the iridescence of your delicate, dappled […]
Letting be
Every now and then in Grey’s Anatomy, the patient starts to fail during an intense surgery, and the doctors look intensely at each other between injecting this and cauterizing that and shocking the heart (“Clear!”) until the lead surgeon barks out an intense command for everyone to take their hands off — now — because […]
If I knew you were comin’
Buddhist teachings are reliably wise, sometimes cryptic and occasionally delightful. The latter category includes a practice I recently encountered that suggests my new year is going to include a lot of … cake. “Feeding the ghosts,” as described by the venerable Pema Chodron in Start Where You Are, is one of those counterintuitive practices typical of […]
Mementos
This morning I blew out Ginny’s first egg to preserve the shell. It’s a ritual I’ve observed with each hen since my first flock began laying in 2001, though I had to order a special little gizmo from Germany to get the job done. Although their color has become faded and unnatural, I still keep […]
Meditatio Ephemera 