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I Voted

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I voted. I voted for the rainbow. I voted for the cry of a loon. I voted for my grandfather’s bones that feed beetles now. I voted for a singing brook that sparkles under a North Dakota bean field. I voted for salty air through which the whimbrel flies South along the shores of two continents. I voted for melting snow that returns to the wellspring of darkness, where the sky is born from the earth. I voted for daemonic mushrooms in the loam, and the old democracy of worms. I voted for the wordless treaty that cannot be broken by white men or brown, because it is made of star semen, thistle sap, hieroglyphs of the weevil in prairie oak. I voted to keep the edges of the vineyard ragged and ungleaned for the hungry stranger. I voted for the local, the small, the brim that does not spill over, the abolition of waste, the luxury of enough. I voted for a motherland where politics dissolves into folk music, story-telling, fermented cabbage, totem-carved hoes handed down fro...
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I Called You

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  I called you my Lord, but this was not the whole truth. I called you my Self, but this was not the whole truth. I called you the Christ, but the Mystery was even deeper. Then I called you Friend, and this was enough. This was everything. Here is the portrait of "Christ at 33" by Hoffman. Please don't tell me this is not how he really looks, because this is very much how he looks when he looks at me. How he looks at you is your business. Incidentally, for what it's worth, Paramhansa Yogananda said that this portrait of Jesus was the closest portrayal of his likeness ever made. How would he know? Who really knows? Nobody.  Your own heart reveals the countenance of the Friend according to the mystery of the divine will, and the clarity of your inmost Eye. No one has any right to tell others how to perceive the face of Christ. No one has any right to tell others whether they perceive the face of an Other, or merely the radiance of the perceiver, beheld in the mirror of ...
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Samhain

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  Midway between Equinox and Winter solstice. Tilted cauldron of Ceridwen. Pouring out the shadows. How many silences could there be? Liquid quietness murmuring Motherward. Ineffably One. The silence between breaths, the silence between stars, between thoughts, between electrons pulsing in the atoms of your blood, the silence in her eyes, where the ruined beauty of last summer's garden hollows into the kingdom of a solitary crow, whose call is neither sad nor joyful, but vigilant, awake, annunciation of descending darkness, mystery of the web of night, season of dancing bones. The veil between the worlds is thin. Bright to dark the seasons turn, Green Man's fire in Jack O'Lantern, Bright above now shines within. Come dance in the circle of Samhaim,* Buds of Beltane burnished in frost. Honor the Old Ones: nothing is lost. Whatever is offered is born again. *Pronounced "Sowin." Photo: Farrell's Marsh, at the heart of the little town I l...
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The Price

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My Teacher said,  "I am in the business of selling gazes. The price is your heart,  but if you have nothing in the bank,    the penny of wonder in your eye is enough." Foolish as it seemed, I gave him everything and purchased emptiness. Friend, this is real business. With a single glance you sell  stars and galaxies, buying nothing in return. Thus you become rich. A mysterious transaction between  two overflowing voids, I and Thou. But how could there be more than  one?  And how could those who rest  in the gaze of grace be poor? If you understand this, you have invested  in the silence  of the rose. You've become a particle  of the unknown without circumference. When you breathe, stars tremble,  tears on your cheek. Friend, we are in orbit  around each other. Your center is me,  my center is you. And this majestic turning of  all things through all things is a great stillness.
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