Skylonda

*bedazzled*
by a solitary fogdrop
tipping a redwood branch
glinting rainbow colors
in the breakout noonday sun...

DAV fundraiser

Peanuts hurled my way
When I refused to stand
And Pledge Allegiance

Be-attitude

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   The bright banner that heralds this late autumn run of days is the streaming talisman called JOY, through no machination of mine own ponder it though I will this one grand emotion lifts me every day and presents me with a world lavished in golden light and I find it elation to simply draw breath…. Why and wherefore? does every surface fairly shimmer and exalt the eye that partakes in it? This sublime condition questions every other, it asks why curse the almshouse when a rosy-domed Taj Mahal stretches from you in every direction? This wine is effervescent and bubbles over your rim with the greatest gift there is, affection for all that's encountered, the roadie in the next car yawning as you wait for the green light at Camden, the brown squirrel who rains down sycamore shuckings on your breezy skull, even the lone geranium flower announcing its hour in the neglected side yard, Affection!  Kinship!  Flesh!  Connexion!

                                                                                 -12-2-2008

quote

The mind is a television
With thousands of channels.
I choose a world that is tranquil & calm
So that my joy will always be fresh.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Lost River Ranger Station

Always lurking there,
Behind the everyday facades we strike,
Our connexion
To the Lost River Ranger Station
Hewn from cliffs
Up Highway 36 Trinity County CA,

Parklot strewn
With gopher skulls
Peering from kestrel turds

deciding what this world is

    When somebody out there declares that 'religion will be the death of us all,' what he is implying is that insofar as what we call 'religion' carries with it some distinctive orthodoxy, or dogma, it has already decided what this world is about, where it came from, and to what it is directed.  And insofar as these ideologies- or theologies as the case may be- contrast with one another, they will clash & compete.  Well enough if these religious adherents are content to follow their own catechism, or spiritual odyssey, but the real trouble begins when others- nonsubscribers to a particular cast of group-think- get projected as 'lost,' 'fallen,' or 'secular,' even guilty of profanation or blasphemy-- deserving somehow to get 'straightened out.'