the power of vulnerability

for anybody who has ever struggled to break open, to love, to be loved.
for anybody who has ever struggled to belong.

on the subject of maidenhair ferns

close the computer.  get up and move.  dance to your core.  explore those inexplicable longings.  fall in love with your brain.  write.  draw.  explore.  think and feel in unison.  channel the unchanneled parts of you.  learn new words.  sing warbling songs as loud as possible.  take an adventure; sure-footed and epic.  breathe.  laugh.  smile.  cry.  dance.  pant.  reconcile with the child inside.  inspire and be inspired.

my relationship with poetry lately

lately poetry has been my guiding light.  i don't know why and i don't know how, but it has been the greatest force driving me back into the light.  this poem describes beautifully my relationship with poetry lately.

how poetry comes to me

it comes blundering over the

boulders at night, it stays

frightened outside the 

range of my campfire

i go to meet it at the

edge of the light

--gary snyder

why i like to cry

initial

out of infinite desires rise

finite deeds like weak fountains

that fall back in early trembling arcs.

but those, which otherwise in us

keep hidden, our happy strengths--

they come forth in these dancing tears.

--rainer maria rilke

(from the book of images)