Rolling across the sky
With that silent thunder
Ah shucks
It's not that mystical
Or poetical
You wake me.
That is all.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Words
coloring books or pickpockets,
signposts or scratching posts,
fakirs over hot coals.
Certain words must be earned
just as emotions are suffered
before they can be uttered
– clean as a kept promise.
Words as witnesses
testifying their truths
squalid or rarefied
inevitable, irrefutable.
But, words must not carry
more than they can
it's not good for their backs
or their reputations.
For, whether they dance alone
or with an invisible partner,
every word is a cosmos
dissolving the inarticulate
—Yahia Lababidi
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Moon
... And Venus with a Jupiter chaser.
When I asked if we could split the difference, I didn't mean a half moon.
Perhaps it's difficult for a rocky stellar being to comprehend us earthbound squishies.
When I asked if we could split the difference, I didn't mean a half moon.
Perhaps it's difficult for a rocky stellar being to comprehend us earthbound squishies.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Sunday, July 08, 2012
Filthy lucre rumination
Can one ever feel good about its pursuit? Making is fine but loving the coin? I think not. Yet there is a respect for those able to generously provide. When I need it - filthy. When others have it - good.
There is great imbalance and little inclination to real charity; so few attempts to right the balance or to respect those at the low end of the scale. At least half the responsibility for their fortune is luck and another 25 percent accident of birth. In fact, so much depends on accident of birth and opportunity that individual wishes can only be a choice of what to amplify and what to reduce.
If I keep on in this way I'll have to conclude that my strong spirituality is also an accident of birth and circumstance. Except that spirituality is more easily acquired than money. Although, I guess that those who acquire money might say the same regarding its acquisition. In some ways it seems like taking more than is deserved; stealing from a pile others haven't found yet. Money seems finite and spirit infinite. The water that eternally removes thirst.
And what does acquisition of money bring but fear of loss, jealousy, hatred, envy, a hollow sense of never having enough, disparaging of those with less? It divides person from person when they ought to be caring and compassionate and helping one another because disaster comes to us all in the same chancing way without respecter of person.
So, we continue to use circumstances to make us cold and divisive when we could be making the world warm and loving. It's a matter of rights; of assuming one deserves some thing or a certain set of circumstances; in short desire for a thing which is an uninformed solution to a non-material need.
Most have lost the ability to understand their spiritual needs or the interdependent nature of our soul existence. There is a deep blockage and lack of training in being able to read the spiritual purposes of events. Most of us are spiritually illiterate, unable to process the deep and vital messages of the universe, unable to see the paths of energy.
And yet I continue to muse on the way of spiritual attainment of money and I don't mean being a priest or holding other religious office.
Perhaps this is a fruitless line of inquiry such as wondering how to make water from sand although there must be a closer relationship of spiritual to money than sand to water. While sand and water are different elements it is possible to do good with money and spirit is good. A tenuous connection?
There is great imbalance and little inclination to real charity; so few attempts to right the balance or to respect those at the low end of the scale. At least half the responsibility for their fortune is luck and another 25 percent accident of birth. In fact, so much depends on accident of birth and opportunity that individual wishes can only be a choice of what to amplify and what to reduce.
If I keep on in this way I'll have to conclude that my strong spirituality is also an accident of birth and circumstance. Except that spirituality is more easily acquired than money. Although, I guess that those who acquire money might say the same regarding its acquisition. In some ways it seems like taking more than is deserved; stealing from a pile others haven't found yet. Money seems finite and spirit infinite. The water that eternally removes thirst.
And what does acquisition of money bring but fear of loss, jealousy, hatred, envy, a hollow sense of never having enough, disparaging of those with less? It divides person from person when they ought to be caring and compassionate and helping one another because disaster comes to us all in the same chancing way without respecter of person.
So, we continue to use circumstances to make us cold and divisive when we could be making the world warm and loving. It's a matter of rights; of assuming one deserves some thing or a certain set of circumstances; in short desire for a thing which is an uninformed solution to a non-material need.
Most have lost the ability to understand their spiritual needs or the interdependent nature of our soul existence. There is a deep blockage and lack of training in being able to read the spiritual purposes of events. Most of us are spiritually illiterate, unable to process the deep and vital messages of the universe, unable to see the paths of energy.
And yet I continue to muse on the way of spiritual attainment of money and I don't mean being a priest or holding other religious office.
Perhaps this is a fruitless line of inquiry such as wondering how to make water from sand although there must be a closer relationship of spiritual to money than sand to water. While sand and water are different elements it is possible to do good with money and spirit is good. A tenuous connection?
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