Sky and Root
Waning crescent in the morning sky marks the slow turn to lunar dark. Autumn strengthens as the green world lets go, heat and light surrendered earthward. Joining the descent to release summer’s weight, I travel to the realm of night sky and root. Reading of “Sky and Root”
Atonement
Autumn of the soul when memory repents and the fruits of judgment drop into the dark earth of forgiveness. Reading of “Atonement”.
Breathing Silence
A murder of crows across the sky in early light, tide low, rocks exposed, sun creeping through morning clouds. The great wheel turns fashioning color and light, while I join the crows, breathing silence into this world of deliverance. […]
Open Doors
The green world breathes the last of summer’s softness, while the souls of winter are lost in warmth. Tall grass spires frame the garden’s closing, while from below the ancients tremble earth’s stone pillars, opening rune-carved doors to autumn’s descent. […]
Storehouse
Slow the turning to cool air and longer nights. Light on the water changes color, the green world burnished to rust. Weary, yet unbroken, I sit with the heaving sea, taking strength from the storehouse. Reading of “Storehouse” with music by Pharoah Sanders.
Tree Branch and Crow
Crows fill the windswept shoreline, black silhouettes against the sky. The sea is gunmetal gray, with sunlight breaking through rose-tinted clouds. Firs sway and dance above in the wind, below, the silent stone keeps its counsel. As shadows ease with the coming of color, crow wing, tree branch, and life’s old scars are touched for […]
Wingless Angel
Lifetimes longer than the age of stone, even from sea’s beginning, I counsel with tides, trace runes on the sky, call ravens to my soul. Carry me down to the darkest waters, lift me up to azure heights, I am a man of mortal terror, a wingless angel who will one day fly. […]
Silent Stone
Earth trembles in rain soaked ground, yet the sea is calm, the old trees heavy with many winters. The peace I know no longer flitting between flowers, but like silent stone gathering stillness to support the sea’s dark depth. […]
Soul Fishing
The sunlit path, orange-gold on the sea, one lone fisherman trolling the depths for the wisdom that might free you from the ancient snare. Prayer is not to beg, but casts an invisible line baited in love’s own flesh, with the patience to wait. So I speak into the dark, the thin voice of an […]
Quiet Sea
After a deep ebb tide the sea slowly floods, covering the mystery with saltwater healing. My heart rests between rise and fall, the pain of loss, the slow relief of grace, and like the sea, filled with earth solace. […]
Awake to the World
Into the wordless silence I spirit-walk the new day, bare feet to ground, eyes open in early light. Shaped and shriven by the quiet earth, I take my place among the newborn, awake to the world while others sleep. […]
Face Unveiled
In silent dark the soul rests in solace hidden from city lights. The healing night and flooding sea, God’s face unveiled in quiet beauty. Now the sun, bright on the tide, stirring the madrone with morning winds. From dark to light the everyday dance, gathered in Earth’s deep folds of mystery. Reading […]
One Thought
Today there is one path, one tide flowing before me. The greater powers move sun and moon, earth and sea, yet reach down indelible and sure to soften my soul in the waters of truth. Reading of “One Thought” with music from Requiem by Mozart.
Ancient Shores
Greet the morning where stone touches tide, quiet as mountains rimming the sea; discord dissolved, healed the fractures, heart cleansed of violent debris. Into the distance vision may reach, beyond storm-wrack to ancient shores, where music rises, peace prevails, there to find You wave-washed pure. […]
Surrender
The briny smell of weed clinging to bare rock, swirls of water rushing south as ebb tide drains the inland sea, emptying the stone-lined cove to gravel and driftwood. Surrendering to time and tide I follow the way of water toward the silent moon, and drain my heart to bedrock. Reading of […]