I was ten years old.It was summer,the first weekend visiting my Dad after my parent’s divorce.After a strange day in what used to be our family home,he got a ladder out of the garageas night settled into South Dakota’s expansive skies.My father smiled like Galileo as he propped the ladder against the suddenly enormous, brown […]
Little Gurus: How My Children Became My Guides to Enlightenment
The word Guru in Sanskrit literally means“dispeller of darkness” which is exactly what you are. Every day I see so many heavy faces lightenand hands gently reach for their own hearts,People enthralled for a moment in your effortless magic washing over themas they watch you prance through the grocery store, or the park, or the […]
Dear Everyone: A Communal Love Poem
deep down
in between the expansive spaces
Within our molecules
We are eternal.
So don’t you let anything among this
Spectacle of specs of dust
make you feel like you are not enough.
