With his passing
his jail experience
leaves his Gift..
New focus on
what is inner
what is higher..
He is pointing
to growth paths
and our need
for our own
jail experiences…!

implies closeness
and many would say
shortness of distance
appearance of merging..
so what if we
eliminate the words
we use for closeness
however small the gap..
then to discover
seamlessness as
the fullness of our
experience:
knowing only a
many colored
intimacy...

The long ago
memories persist
stories of war
back then
reenter today..
for a few
their immersion
brought glimpses
of more..
but stories persist..

Those life endings
ordered and angered..
new remembering
brings fresh pain..
a rejection decided
brought a lifetime
burden of guilt..
a lost limb then
anchored renewal
for others today..

We need ask
on this
day of memories
that all suffering
long and brief
heavy and light
be Sighted anew
accepted at last
sharp edges of
welcome Light...

My work yesterday
I pursued with fire..
dead letters burned
letters with news
for countless intended
recipients Unknown..
news shadowed or light
these notifications of
paths NOT taken
met their end by
my flaming torch..
My role as destroyer
carried my reverie
ignited a wish
a blessing and curse
to finally know NOT..

My work today
new letters appear..
copying not burning
yet sorrows abide in
slow repetitive death..
I must rise
stand tall
Find face and soul
in that wall..
I must proclaim
I prefer NOT..
PREFER
this delicious word..
freedom's choice
tasted with short
bursts of joy..

Facing my wall
searching for NOT
into emptiness flowed
a bright wholeness
of  letters and light..
but a price to be paid
for other's disdain
they are forgiven for
not knowing NOT..
NOT holds those
letters I've known..
Ah humanity...*

Based on Herman Melville's
short story, "Bartleby
the Scrivener"

What is it
that we can say is
irreducible..?
This has been
science's quest over
the centuries:
to locate the illusive
irreducible..

Atoms in ancient times
seemed irreducible
followed eventually by
electrons..protons..quarks..
You know these names..
Names of matter
tinier and tinier..
irreducible

And the end
is not in sight for
searching in matter
for that which is
tinier
tiniest
irreducible..

It appears
we await a new day..
Perhaps soon
for recognition
that our focus
need be reversed:
inside not outside
is a non-location
infinite and
irreducible...

She waited tables in
storied valley manor..
to a train strummer
she was mated..
fixer of hair with
energy and mystery
just these Lifedots..
revisiting the manor
Jolene since departed
no one remembered
her wispy details..
many Jolenes
only imagination
fills in...

a lonely figure
in silence appears
each Christmas year..
might we make his
place more secure..?
recall his namesake
in Egypt's deep past..
Joseph the Viceroy
with many travails
observes a descent
with ascent foreseen..
let us then imagine
this newer Joseph
in silent watch
pondering his name..
with swift recognition
of the ancient Formula
which eternally repeats:
our many steps down
are concealed within
that One step up..
energy so flows
hidden messianic
Light...

who journals
out there..?
we know the priority
each new day
is a gathering of
those wrinkles and sticks
and seeing each whole
relating as they do
now to each other..
and then they reach
to something larger
new until now
unseen
until journaling entry
this moment...

our journaling discipline
formed in six steps:

Narration
some warmup words
perhaps drawing or photo
pen now at ready
where we jump in..

Emptying
first we list
what's to be emptied
put it all down
pleasures and pains..

Removing
these are obstacles
label future and past
futilities recognized
we've trimmed our list..

Anchoring
with shorter list
peering behind entries
find lurking there
Light of the moment..

Listening
this is Creation
WE are creating
cleansing the old
Writing new birth..

Reflecting
mind now diffused
a Cycle made clear
a Voice was heard
new Narration appears..

*Now WE step
into our day
riding our Cycle
pedaling our Way...!

is not one journey
nor is it many..
it is the movement
of your self
within and as
your Self..

There are many journeys...  
There are journeys in which we observe the
world from conventional windows of body and mind.  
There is another journey which involves recognition
that I Am much more than my old belief that my limited
body and mind is who I am.  Also.. to discover that my
belief in limitation is the root of my suffering and
longing.  The new journey, the Direct Path, belongs to
the experience of Non-Duality, in which are found to have
Two Legs:
the Inward, and the Outward.  The Inward Leg results
in the discovery of our Unlimited nature, and the Outward
is a "return" to the world..beginning a life-long
realignment in our lives based on a recognized
True Identity…

There are many journeys...  
There are journeys in which we as travelers observe 
the world from conventional windows of body and mind.  
There is another journey which involves a recognition
that I Am much more than my old belief that my limited 
body and mind is who I am.  Also.. to discover that my 
belief in limitation is the root of my suffering and 
longing.  The new journey belongs to the experience of 
Non-Duality, in which are found to be two legs:  the 
inward, and the outward.  The inward leg results in the 
discovery of our Unlimited nature, and the outward leg 
is a "return" to the world..beginning a life-long 
realignment in our lives based on a joyful new 
Understanding...

There are many journeys...  
There are journeys in which we as travelers observe
the world from conventional windows of body and mind.  
There is another journey which involves a recognition
that I Am much more than my old belief that my limited
body and mind is who I am.  Also.. to discover that my
belief in limitation is the root of my suffering and
longing.  The new journey belongs to the experience of
Non-Duality, in which are found to be two legs:  the
inward, and the outward.  The inward leg results in the
discovery of our Unlimited nature, and the outward leg
is a "return" to the world..beginning a life-long
realignment in our lives based on a joyful new
Understanding...

Stands as we stand
Framing this story
In time and place..
And asking questions
With no answers
Then or now..
What's the buzz..?
To know who he was
We need only
Know who we are..
Each must sacrifice
Our outward beliefs..
Turn inward to recognize
a Superstar...!

what seems
as good luck or bad
dresses a teacher..
our smaller mind
when confounded by
the unexplained
drills down to locate
what must be there:
a cause and effect..
often 'tho..alas..
sorry..no luck..

then might dawn
the recognition:
what is happening
is all at once
right Now..
what is happening
halts the search in  
no time and place
and Lady Luck
smiles and
takes a bow...

when she reaches
that V in the road..
we wonder
is her freedom found
in the choosing
or the choice..?
if she chooses choosing
she is not free
for the other choice..
if she chooses choice
making no choice
ends her choosing..

does the V itself
contain the secret
the freedom she seeks..?
that V point
containing all choices
might accompany
inspire and energize..
on her chosen path
she remembers
and becomes once more
again and again
that point...