Like Water For even stone relents to the endless flow as water rushes and rolls through the narrow and the wide shifting shape to relentlessly move downstream into an open vastness to mirror the skies clouds at our feet and clouds above holding space like water - Caroline A. Slee
Spirituality
A Space of Zen
A Space of Zen We must cultivate our own gardens both within and without seek and create a space of Zen of our very own the calm and quiet to hear our own intuition the uncluttered mind honed through meditation we must build our unique temples for comfort and for clarity allowing vision to focus … Continue reading A Space of Zen
Present/Ancient
Present/Ancient We too shall pass into relics and ruins our larger-than-life present moving beyond memory and knowledge we are each Ozymandias believing in our own importance stamping each day with our signatures and footprints standing outside the knowledge of fickle time and her destructive path there will be no works and days from our reckless … Continue reading Present/Ancient
Heaven and Earth
Heaven and Earth The space between heaven and earth does not exist they occupy a shared world the heavens wrapping the earth in winds and fogs and morning mists just as the seas cover the sands with tides and rotations and the pull of bright moonlight the space between heaven and earth is a trick … Continue reading Heaven and Earth
We Follow the River
When we ignore the interruptions of the "civilized" world
Feeling Pink
Feeling Pink No mood indigo to overtake the night but a soft glow to sink over the sea as the sun is drowned to the West No blue period to dictate every mood but an indomitable lift that brings us upward rising, rising, rising as constant as the East - Caroline A. Slee
Every Living Thing
Any Living Thing We like our definitions to hold a rigid understanding to exclude all we do not want to accept We like our gods to share our same opinions molding and shaping the divine into the unanointed We forget the ultimate holiness -within every single creation without any limit or exclusion -it is only … Continue reading Every Living Thing
A World Beneath Our Feet
A world beneath our feet overlooked and forgotten outside of the careful steps we take a planet teeming with life invisible to our eyes a world beneath our feet sustaining us despite our blindness clearing the air we breathe absorbing our footprints and our whispers a world beneath our feet older than our souls meant … Continue reading A World Beneath Our Feet
Soar
Soar Bring me to the bird's eye view removed from the activity below lift me high upon currents of air in a dance not of this world out of body and out of time the view of angels and gods taking flight from human voices breaking free of human chains bring me to the bird's … Continue reading Soar
May Day
May Day Gather the ribbons and set up the dance a celebration of the season and nature's time bring everyone together in voice or in song a community of joy standing together as one tomorrow we can forget and return to modern life but today let up gather our ribbons and dance - Caroline A. … Continue reading May Day