who you are
is very good
so be it
openly
*
[a collection of 35mm film]
2025-07-22 09:56:11 +0000 UTC View Post
intertwining posts
grace
i sit in the fire and i run from the fire and i am the fire.
i sleep for days and wake up and am fed by Grace.
my heart is tender like raw meat.
i spill coffee on my white blouse and i don’t car...
2025-07-18 19:57:45 +0000 UTC View Postand when love speaks to you, believe in Him
For even as Love is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in the...
2025-07-12 16:49:37 +0000 UTC View Postriding the pregnant tigress
learn that your innate luminous nature
is a hair’s breadth away
(i) know who you are
i want to say this now
don’t worry. you are so good.
i said this to a frie...
2025-07-02 11:48:55 +0000 UTC View Postnew moon in cancer
i wake with the feeling of the knife in the back of the heart. after taking asana and breakfast, i am to drive Lama Lorraine to physical therapy. i pick her up and am a little nervous. i am wearing a nice dress and shawl to be respectful. i am sur...
2025-06-26 18:21:29 +0000 UTC View Postmandalic entrance
circle around
the Heart
of matter
/
slow and steady,
or swift movement
it doesn’t matter
/
as long
as it is
with love
/
what is That?
there is no use in trying...
2025-06-14 20:24:21 +0000 UTC View Postdrawing blood, std panels, and unconditional love
there is ordinary magic moment to moment which can easily be missed by the hungry ghost. what is it that we hunger for? perhaps to be loved without condition, seen in our totality and strangeness without judgement. sometimes, in being seen, it can...
2025-06-09 17:05:34 +0000 UTC View Post
downpour and cherries
no one controls Nature i thought gleefully as the rain poured suddenly down and a shirtless man met my eye and we giggled and another person under an umbrella shrugged and grinned and i stopped. and became drenched in order to take in the velvet-...
2025-06-08 12:46:22 +0000 UTC View Post
everything is changing
i danced and danced and danced…
/
we went to the city
and the Mother fed us
in many forms
fat and hairy
strong or luminous
homeless...
2025-06-01 13:35:01 +0000 UTC View Post
a poem from the first day of april
i take myself
to cold river
holding flora
the whole way
/
gently and fiercely
/
the lips
of this flower
streaming iridescence
smell the flowers
/
at the cafe
it’s orgasmic
and the barista
plucks one off
and places it
in the center
/
... 2025-05-06 21:30:58 +0000 UTC View Postmeditation (05.03.25)
the spine
is an icicle
/
ice to water
fluidity to translucence
/
love is an ocean
unfathomable action
/
a flash of lightning in the dark night in the dream of loving awareness
loosen the grip
i walk near
a bird with plastic in the mouth
and this creature clings tightly
to treasure, swiftly flying on
/
and i wonder how many times
we cling ...
2025-04-14 19:56:42 +0000 UTC View Post‘the heart essence’
Hatha Yoga is medicine
/
take the posture.
where is the mind?
/
love yourself so much
that you forget yourself
/
fuck t...
2025-04-12 13:12:56 +0000 UTC View Postlearning to work with water
if i do not
/
respect
steaming pot
it burns me
/
if i do not
/
respect
frozen expanse <...
2025-04-04 15:25:07 +0000 UTC View Post![fields of flora [ii]](https://img5.illustratefans.com/storage/3/gk/fo/102843-019e8b5f-d2bf-7375-9334-f514ac11e349.jpg)
fields of flora [i]
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15 years ago, i decided to embark on a project where i took one self portrait a day for a year. i called it 365 days (original). this ritual was my refuge of quietude and stillness within a very emotional and seemingly turbulent inner world. i did...
2025-04-02 16:02:06 +0000 UTC View Postanother experiment
Millions are burning with the fire of aggression. We can sit with the intensity of the anger and let its energy humble us and make us more compassionate. This is where the fourth instruction comes in: it is helpful to think about the person who is...
2025-03-27 13:17:26 +0000 UTC View Post
waters
i walk
to the waterfall
and stop
*
to admire the rocks
and roots and sky
and here
*
blush-tinted expanse
<...
2025-03-21 12:42:07 +0000 UTC View Postis-ness
a drop
of oil
on a sizzling pan
*
in immediacy
no time
for thoughts
*
no need
to push that away ...
2025-03-20 15:40:30 +0000 UTC View Postcold, spring lake
i am
the cold water
clear, fluid container
around these bliss limbs
the breath
slow
and deep
the lake 2025-03-16 12:26:57 +0000 UTC View Post
the places that scare you
we are learning firsthand what everyone who has ever set out on this path has learned: we are all a paradoxical bundle of rich potential that consists of both neurosis and wisdom.
— pema chödrön —
2025-03-13 12:39:49 +0000 UTC View Post
naked luminosity (poem)
Topaz leaves quiver by wind
Silver moon weeps gently
upon the mid night
*
Little flower
And here
trees blush —
The Flowers of Our Wrath
“Divine rage is fierce. disciplined, and visionary...The aim of divine rage is not vengeance but to reorder the world...
Perhaps our task as human beings is to find safe containers for our raw reactionary rage - and then choose to harness ...
2025-02-28 21:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post