Embarrassingly Straightforward

Embarrassingly Straightforward

There is a quiet, almost mischievous simplicity running through so many of the great wisdom traditions, whether you wander through the teachings of Buddha or Jesus, sit with Laozi, or read someone like Jon Kabat-Zinn. Different languages, different metaphors, different rituals, and yet they keep pointing, again and again, to something almost embarrassingly straightforward.

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Leavening
Leavening

A poem about leavening loss

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There Is Something I Still Can't Explain
There Is Something I Still Can't Explain

There can be such delight in not knowing the answer.

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The Edge Is Where It Gets Interesting
The Edge Is Where It Gets Interesting

We do not only take care of ourselves by holding the line. We also take care of ourselves by shaping edges that allow for the right kinds of movement. Not everything and not indiscriminately. But enough.

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Embarrassingly Straightforward
Embarrassingly Straightforward

There is a quiet, almost mischievous simplicity running through so many of the great wisdom traditions, whether you wander through the teachings of Buddha or Jesus, sit with Laozi, or read someone like Jon Kabat-Zinn. Different languages, different metaphors, different rituals, and yet they keep pointing, again and again, to something almost embarrassingly straightforward.

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Let This Be For . .
Let This Be For . .

Let this be for all of it, the seen, the nearly missed, the already vanishing, for the way meaning gathers not in declaration, but in the pause before we turn away, and the small, saving act of looking again.

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