inattention and a sagging roof
seen through the window
while breaking from meditating
to write down sundry thoughts
once I tried to save the world
then I tried to save my soul
now I try to make it through the day
once I tried to save the world
then I tried to save my soul
now I try to make it through the day
once [...]
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Once I tried to save the world
Then I tried to save my soul
Now I simply try to make it throught the day…
snowbow
Posted in Uncategorized, happyness, observations, trivia on Jan 20th, 2009
When the sun shines down on snow and there is some glittering, there is an arc where the glitter is spectoral, flashing glitters of prismatic colour. I can’t estimate closely the angle to the sun or this glittering snowbow (somewhere between 120 and 160 degrees?). Today at 2pm, the sun may have been 25 degrees [...]
drop into your heart
Posted in Buddhism, Consciousness, cosmology, for now, mantra, metaphysics, observations, poetry, psychology, stories, this blog, trivia, truisms on Jan 11th, 2009
Tee said, “The only way to escape the misery is to fall into your heart. Don’t listen to your mind. Fall into life. You have to listen to your body. Listen to everything – in silence. Fall into silence.”
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My Leonard Cohen Story: The Bourgeois Blues
Posted in Drama, Ted Allan, humor, moans, poetry, stories, trivia, videos on Nov 9th, 2008
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My Leonard Cohen Story: The Bourgeois Blues
This concerns Lee Harper’s amazing first poetic outpouring, which my father sent to Leonard Cohen. Lee was, and is, beautiful, so Ted enclosed a “head shot”.
A few days later Ted said to me, “You write poetry,” and then something like, “Wow! Your good. You’re really good*,” [...]