Monthly Archives: April 2014

On Wisdom

Posted on April 29, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

When the mind speaks, wisdom puts a finger to its lips, “Hush.” That I fail to find order in my life is evidence that I am seeking the means with my mind rather than the ends with my heart. So, … Continue reading →

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In-between-ities

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

There are immeasurably small instants in an immeasurable eternity.These “in-between-ities” are where we neither regret the moments “once-now-gone”nor those “longed-for-to-happen.” It is the gracefulness of presence when present.There at the node of a lamniscate,a unity so beyond you and I,that … Continue reading →

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Coffee Shop Selfie

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Anyone can stage a prolific book, a computer, salt and pepper butterscotch cookie, and a steaming cup of cappuccino – heart swirls and all. Photoshop it to misty tears. But really – what’s going on in this picture? Nothing. Nothing … Continue reading →

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Why signs

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Why look for signs? Why even expend an atoms effort to find them… for we worry a mountain if we don’t and doubt when we do. Nay, everything is everything; and I have faith in the signs I don’t see. … Continue reading →

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Death and LIfe share the same door

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Whether abandoned by time or will,  the rose will endure its falling petals,  which reunite with the soil, from which it grows again.   Were I not to die,  of what use, this life. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Recipient Becomes the Sender

Posted on April 23, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’m just passing it along, All has come – to become gone But for a fleeting instant at most love is a guest of an eager host I become aware that sender I must be, which is how it now … Continue reading →

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Inside out

Posted on April 20, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

How is it that such vast encounters can be taken in by the small portals of our eyes and ears. Perhaps it is already within us – and it takes but a single ray of light to illuminate the entire … Continue reading →

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The Altar of Happiness, Ruins of Sorrow

Posted on April 20, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

…I mused an eon of my life one evening, on the purpose of existence and on what leaves me with the most certainty, those being both birth and death; as well as that which gives me the least certainty – … Continue reading →

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let it lie, let it fly

Posted on April 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

A feather softly landed. Let it lie. ‘Tis an attribute of another name. Eternal light, Not intermittent flame. When called through lips A sound, a kiss. When a breath says “love” It’s lost to winds, Only to land if it … Continue reading →

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Sated Fierce Ones

Posted on April 14, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

There is a sweetness when we realize that all we seek on earth is only for temporary nourishment…the truth is in the dreams of the sated fierce ones. What gives the lion his strength is the softness of his dreams. … Continue reading →

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