mystical
June 5, 2009
- I was misty-eyed at President Barack Obama's courageous attempt to create an atmosphere where peace can begin, to get the Muslim world at large to understand that we can have different views -- both commonalities and differences -- and still get along. It seems so simple yet it appears to be so difficult to put into practice.While I appreciated his understanding of the centuries of persecution ...
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March 7, 2009
- ODE TO WALKING AND SINGING (a poem)Someday I'll set off walking and singing a Holy Nameand never come backbecause there's nothing like it,small body under a great sky,walking stick and hatand the path-ribbon stretching out or loopingas far as you want to go,no good reason, really, to stop,especially when you sing,because the human voiceis a bird in a cage and song allows it to soar,and when at ...
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May 21, 2008
- Just received the first in-depth response to Chalcedony - here it is!"I'm one of those people who never reads the preface, and it took me a couple of references to breasts to realize my perspective was definitely skewed. Back to the preface and... ahhh.... I love how this archetype, as Matson describes Chalcedony, pulls the poet into a lower world of her own deeper wisdom, an initiation ...
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