I will cherish this quiet cloak of mist and wait for the warm hands of the sun to reach through the fog and massage my aching body. I will wait for the shining face of July to kiss my cheek and make my soul smile.
Sometimes when I come to the well I wonder if it will be dry. I come every day and drink my fill, I bath in the healing waters overflowing in waves of stillness. I am wasteful and I lavish my soul in the luxury of this wellspring of comfort when my heart is parched and [...]
O my mind, be like an ocean that is calm as a mirror. Let the stormy waves subside, without the wind of thought to stir and build forces I cannot control or resist. O my mind be true as a perfectly polished mirror, purely reflecting the Light we were distilled from.
Sometimes the breath of your music draws me into stillness like a gentle river into a motionless sea. It is not the sparkling notes, the liquid melodies, the textures and timbres or the layers of swirling vibrations that carries us away. It is the silence out of which they are born and return to, sweeping [...]
Sometimes I come to you and I ask, “what do you have for me today?”. Sometimes I come with my cup already full and there is no room for you to pour even a drop from your ocean of treasures. Sometimes you say “hush foolish child, do not reach out for inspiration, it cannot be [...]
Beauty comes to me at dawn in a garment of golden light and baths me in the music of a new born day, breathing into my heart with a lover’s touch, the melody of my soul. I am lost in wonder, I am drunk with awe. Who is not dumbstruck with the arrival of [...]
For this time of year, with the usual heat and dryness, there is really still a lot of color in the landscape. Red, white and pink Oleanders, big majestic purple Jacaranda trees dressed in their royal robes and some trees that have beautiful little yellow globes like tiny lanterns hanging from the branches. There are [...]
Such inexpressible beauty greets my senses, how can I tell you? Such sublime loveliness my breath stops involuntarily for a moment and my thoughts are still. When they begin again I think perhaps I should not even try to express what I see…..to diminish such beauty with my words seems a sacrilege, and yet I [...]
I love when the sun shines sideways, when the first morning light comes from the sun floating up above the canyon wall. It comes flooding through the plants and trees almost horizontally, lighting them up on one side while the other side is still dark and shadowy, dramatically accentuating the beauty of the shapes and [...]
For this time of year, with the usual heat and dryness, there is really still a lot of color in the landscape. Red, white and pink Oleanders, big majestic purple Jacaranda’s dressed in their royal robes and some trees that have beautiful little yellow globes hanging from the branches. There are some plants that flower [...]