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Dec.13.2010 Wisdom Walking In the East is youth, where the journey begins. In South the gathering of power. In West there is love. In North there is wisdom. Those that have completed the journey have gathered the wisdom to speak of the other directions. They can give advice or they know how to wisely accept what they...	Dec.11.2010 The Directions I belong to a Women's Moon Lodge in Santa Fe that meets each month near the time of the new moon. We begin our circle by calling in the Directions, a Native American practice. With our feet on the earth, we find the center within our own being, in our hearts and souls. But today, as the worst...
Dec.11.2010 The Four Cardinal Points Are Three "The four cardinal points are three, the south and the north." "a poem is a thing that will be." "a poem is something that never is, but that it should be." "A poem is something that it have never been, that could never be." "Run from the sublime...	Dec.10.2010 north, south, east or west Growing up in New England, in the tiny state of RI, east meant water. Narragansett Bay. South also meant water. The Atlantic Ocean. Then I moved to San Francisco. And lost my directional bearings. Here the ocean lies to the west. But the Bay still sits to the East. In RI, you can always drive...
Dec.10.2010 THE WIND BLOWS I try not to think too hard about the cardinal directions. North, South, East, West—just don’t talk to me about it. If you’re giving me directions, I’d much prefer left, right, right, right, left, you can’t miss it over west, north, east, south, east, am I talkin’ too fast fer ya? Even as a Boy...	Dec.08.2010 North, South, East, West I spent a few months in Maine in 1987, but I never returned, and it's all their fault. I'm not sure I could ever find my way home again. That year I was teaching a summer course at the University of Maine in Portland. One of the graduate students asked me if wanted to join him and some friends who...
Dec.08.2010 Two Ways of Looking at it The college I work for has a second campus that evolved from renting a room or two at a high school into being its own fully fledged campus, built when there still were dollars to spend on such things. Maybe back then, it was before the tax-cuts to the rich. Oh, wait. I digress. Anyway, this...	Aug.10.2010 I SWEAR IT'S TRUE My mother once referred to a North Carolina friend of mine who had been raised Jewish and Christian as “spiritually bi-lingual.” After "Mama Jo"'s passing in 2006, I now live in Greensboro and New York. I guess that makes me "geographically bi-lingual." It also gives me a...
Dec.09.2009 Our Winter Wonderland As I sit here watching my wife cook supper, my eyes are drawn to the window's. Why you might ask? Well I am looking at the storm that is suppose to drop 30 cm on us in one day. I moved back to my home town in July, it was a hecktic move but we are here. My wife has been laughing at all the other...