END OF YEAR MEDITATION

WHEN ETERNAL TIME SEEMS SHORT, BREATHE!

BE IN THE SPIRIT OF THE MOMENT

GO SIMPLE, BE COMPLEX

STRETCH YOUR ARMS

YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL IS AROUND YOUR CIRCUMFERENCE

BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, EMBRACE THE PRESENT IN ALL YOU DO

LOVE ALL THE TIME

LOVE ALL YOUR RELATIONS!

"ALL ENERGY IS BORROWED. YOU MUST RETURN IT SOMEDAY" from the movie AVATAR

Poinsietta Sparkle

Merry Christmas!

THE CRICKET: A BEING WITH A PLAN

IN THE WARM SHOWER THE CRICKET STOOD

DAMPENED AND HOPPING MORE SLOWLY

WHILE I DECIDED WHETHER IT LIVED OR DIED

NOT GIVING IN TO THE IMPULSE TO SNUFF IT WITH A TISSUE

OR SMACK IT FLAT WITH A HEAVY HAND

IT WAS THEN AS I CONTEMPLATED IT'S FATE THAT I REALIZED

IT WAS A BEING WITH A PLAN

AS IT SLIPPED THROUGH A STRATEGIC SMALL OPENING

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GLASS DOOR

Harvest at Basha's Supermarket

Chandler, Arizona

We are a hotbed of suburban yearnings

A trip to Home Depot

Chemicals for the pool

Halloween decorations

From the car we look between box stores which repeat every couple of miles

catching glimpses of bright pink Bougainvillea

Palo Verde standing sturdy

Acacias softly swaying with their little pods

Sunset just about 6:30 through stratus clouds

I am all eyes for the beauty of nature all around

And I can delete the concrete!

PRICKLY PEAR ON THE ROCKS

ROSES GROW IN THE DESERT

October Fruit and Birds

An Ever Increasing Lightness And Openness

IN DREAMS I DO AND GO

It's Easy To See What Direction To Travel

Sunrise to Sunset

LIFE IS A CIRCULAR AFFAIR:

HERE WE MOVE FROM BIRTH TO DEATH

SUNRISE TO SUNSET

WE REACH NO CONCLUSION ONLY INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

THE EARTH IS ROUND, THE WOMB IS ROUND

THE PLANTS AND TREES BLOOM AND CEASE

NOTHING CONSTANT BUT OUR BEATING HEARTS

KEEPING THE RYTHYM OF OUR BODIES

REFLECTING THE EARTH:

OUR FLUIDS, THE WATER

OUR BONES, WOOD

OUR BREATH, AIR

OUR BLOOD, FIRE

ALL OBJECTS APPEAR SOLID

BUT UPON CLOSE INSPECTION

ARE MERELY CLOSE TOGETHER MOLECULES

PRONE TO CHANGE AND WEATHERING

EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX

AS THE EARTH SPINS SUSPENDED IN THE UNIVERSE BY MAGNETIC FORCES

I BLEND INTO MY HOME, THIS PLANET, THIS SCHOOL FOR SOULS

IN THE MARDI-GRAS OF TIME PASSING THROUGH

IN THIS EXQUISITE VEHICLE , THIS TEMPORARY SHIP!