Trickster, Teacher, Fool, Divine Immortal, Urban Legend, Sexy Beast, Trouble Maker..... survivor and creative force of nature. Who can say what Coyote really is? Not even Coyote! Coyote, Coyote, Please Tell Me Coyote, Coyote Please tell me What is a shaman? A shaman I don’t know anything about. I’m a doctor, myself. When I use [...]
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein This four minute film starring Seth Godin is about the attribute that makes the whole of creative life and engagement possible: curiosity. In it, Godin says: ‘A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they [...]
In body, heart, mind - may the great unclenching commence. The Way of Love The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings. By Jalāl ad-Dīn Rumi (1207 – 1273) from The [...]
Ring the bells! Do a dance! Joy Harjo, a national treasure, has become the first Native American to serve as our nation's official poet. I'm overjoyed by this news! I can think of no one who's mo better to be appointed to the position of poet laureate at these times than Joy Harjo. A member [...]
This poetic medicine will do you good. It contains absolutely no harmful side effects. Take any time of day or night. Use if you want to remember what matters. First Light In the first light I remember who rewards me for living, not bosses but singing birds and blue sky. I know I can bathe [...]
Terms of Endearment: Lucky, Luckster, Luckers, Lil' Man, Baby Boy, Demander, Stinker, Littlest One, and finally, Beloved. Thanksgiving weekend 2004, Bend, Oregon: It's six months after I found this wee pup running down the road. We're sleeping on a futon I've dragged to the living room for quick access to the door. He's got diarrhea [...]
For Lucky, In Memoriam August 2003 – May 19, 2019 When finally she surrendered all effort to fathom appearance and disappearance, to understand how one loves what cannot last – her heart rolled as a child at play in newly mown grass, rolled and rolled upon a sea of fragrant petals, sweet with the scent [...]
May we embrace this floating world and rise up in compassionate celebration of life. If You Knew What if you knew you’d be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm, brush your [...]
Are they not having a ball? They have no argument with reality, and in fact, dance joyfully amid the transience of things. Things come, things go. Can you say "hello" and "goodbye" to what arises in your life with your whole heart? If not, hope and fear dominate the mind and close off rich possibilities. [...]
I chose this poem by Rilke to celebrate National Poetry Month. What a stunning evocation of incomprehensible faith, and a deep homage to our beloved Earth. All Will Come Again Into Its Strength All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed, the trees towering and [...]