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Veils 2
It is one thing to step through the veil. It is another to take my place on the other side. There is no turning back. Those of you who step through know. If you try, you see that the veil is gone. Only...
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Veils 3
You must leave your home and go forth from your country. The children of Buddha all practice this way. ---The thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices I stand firmly on the ground on the other side of the...
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Time Ball
When Hemos Johnson (hereditary Hahwannis chief of Kingcome) was an old man visiting his daughter at Comox she took him to Elk Falls, a place he had heard much about but had never seen. He stood where...
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She Knew
...kiss the snake so that you may gain the treasure... ---Rumi My mother, in her deepest heart, was a jazz pianist. She had perfect pitch, could learn by ear anything she heard on her cherished...
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Dry
1 One week of intensive addiction treatment for free. I was poor. I knew it was time to take a break from main-lining my favorite drug. The clinic was famous. It was the favorite place for more than a...
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Sendings
...and I lift my glass to the Awful Truth which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth except to say it isn't worth a dime And the whole damn place goes crazy twice and it's once for the devil and once...
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Heading North
Despite the best efforts of the Mojave to hold me fast with its beauty and dear people, I leave today for Bend, Or. Thanks to my son, Matt; and my beloved friend, Fred K., every object I own is in a...
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Burn This
The news is heavy...there are beasts loose that make the long walks, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Bhopal and Chernobyl pale in comparison.---Barry Lopezfrom his eulogy for Edward Abbey, 1988...When we first...
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if
you never read anything again in your life, read this.If you catch me whining about my privileged plight, send it back to me.I'm so lucky.love, meTerry Pratchett's Alzheimer's Speech in Fullthis is...
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Detained
“There was a rebel who kept transmitting,” Yates recalled in a whisper...He kept on transmitting for years after the program ended, even though no one answered.”“There was no world afterward,” the...
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Now
*******I write from a little house in Bend, Or. I have everything I could need: prayer flags ripple in a cool breeze; a cord of wood is stacked along the fence, a gift from a friend of a friend; there...
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Starwomen
Two dear friends are both astrologers. They work far beyond what passes for sky-reading in the popular press. Their signals come back to us from those great distances with clarity and mystery.Deborah...
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Magic
I'm ready to begin working with one-on-one students again. I love working with those of you who have been meaning to write and haven't yet begun; with those of you who began and stalled out; with those...
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Geography
A moment of happiness You and I sitting on the verandah, Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I……The stars will be watching us, and we will show them how it is to be the thinnest crescent moon. You...
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Tendrils
We know who we are. We are those who are willing to not know much of anything else. And still we let tendrils from within us coil out. Sometimes they take hold of another. Sometimes they tremble on the...
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Grape Popsicle
This is her story. I barely know her. We met at a gem and mineral show in the Little America hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona at least fifteen years ago. I bought a raw opal from her. She gave me two more...
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What Now?
“What kinds of things do you write?” asked Martha...”I’m not exactly a writer,” Sam corrected her. “I’m a listener. I’m listening for clues about day-to-day life on the planet.”“But do you write things...
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Circling
(I offer Circling to the unknown reader who once underlined sentences in my book, Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest and posed a haunting question in the margin of the essay Compromise:...
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Cyndra Won't Get Out of the Truck
Cyndra Won’t Get Out of the TruckIf she had known how completely crazy J.B. was, even BEFORE he shipped over to Iraq, she would not have married him. Even if she had been seventeen and him twenty-one...
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