Stillness | Stillness
Dec.27.2012
whuff whuff
I step out into soft gray sunlight. Cold air holds the world's breath.
whuff whuff
I turn at the sound, seeking the source. A crow rewards me with his appearance. His beating wings make the noise.
whuff whuff
He flies barely above the...
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Sep.16.2012
In a new book I must read, and you might wish to read as well, is T. E. Lurhmann’s When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. In the book, the author tells of a time when someone asked Mother Teresa of Calcutta how she communicated with God. “When...
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Sep.09.2012
Want Enlightenment? Salvation? Freedom?
It's infinitely simpler than you could ever imagine. And, it will take a lifetime to unpack.
Here's how - Practice Stillness.
As Nepo expresses it, and only as Nepo could, "Make a deal with yourself: trade five facts about how to live for one hour of...
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Apr.23.2012
Over the years, I’ve learned how to catch myself before I spin out of control emotionally. Sometimes it’s easier said than done, like many things concerning human emotions. It takes conscientious effort to reconstruct the old worn paths that meander through the woods of the mind that can send...
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Jul.07.2011
When you walk in the sun, no matter how hot, remember the winter that's been. -daw
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Feb.09.2011
When I in still place/
I have a muse, she washes/
Stillness, pen dormat-daw/
Photo in my mind/
Washes a certain stillness/
Pen like its dormant-daw/
Stillness sometimes does not bring on the picture or word or words that resonate with the haiku. I have to force feed the poetry. It...
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Aug.13.2010
She says it’s her favorite book ever. And, lately, all my wife talks about is seeing the movie version of Eat, Pray, Love, starring Julia Roberts. So, I finally decided to check it out for myself.
I wasn’t expecting much. I got to the first scene, however--the one where the...
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Dec.02.2009
The side angle face,
what does it show?
Photographers work
with it all the time
and no doubt have
rich answers.
But what does it
reveal to you and me
with our untrained sight?
My preference is to see
stillness,
not just as in a
photograph—
as that can be
nothing but a face
caught in an instant.
I...
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Oct.07.2009
In day-to-day living changes are subtle and often go unnoticed. We move about our business and seldom reflect. Each moment is a story unfolding that often goes untold. For each new thing we learn, each story we hear or create, there are thousands more. Like a photograph, we capture but a...
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Nov.20.2008
Sitdownlike a dog.
Waitfornothing.
Senseeverything.
Sit,Mind,sit.
pavel somov/copyright2008/totem of tautology
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