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I had no cause to judge comfort and security until I saw how they froze people’s hearts into defensive mode, compelling them to see the world as a threat to their comfort and security when before they might have regarded … Continue reading Journaling: On Comfort
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it can escape its own chatter. The Mindful Bard breath mantras can be practised at … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Cultivating Gratitude
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Many thanks to Reynalds and Cristina Leroux of Bordeaux, France, for this beautiful composition and musical arrangement! Continue reading Song Demo: Oh, You!
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Remember that the One is not only mystery, magesty, and might, but also the lightness, the nothingmatterness, the Fellini clown, the minstrel of the dawn, Mr. Tambourine Man, the man with the child in his eyes. Continue reading Journaling: Remember That the One
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Rejection
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In addition to songwriting I often like to give a new spin to old standards. Here’s my latest. Continue reading Song Demo: Blue Moon (de una niña rebelde)
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Earth, Earth, my Babylon, Your cheeks are white and ruddy. Filling your lap with children, soft you sing. These trees are like the trees at home; O Laurel bright, a sword between me and thee. Within the gate, beside the … Continue reading Poem: In the Garden
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The Star Trek writers’ frequent use of time travel is not just a clever speculative plot device. In each episode where time travel occurs, the characters are forced to accept the present as it is. Even in imagining that one … Continue reading Journaling: The Meaning of Time Travel on Star Trek
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A new language can be learned in a classroom or from a book, but mastery of that language can only come when you use it to communicate. In the same way mastery of a musical instrument doesn’t proceed solely from … Continue reading Journaling: Mastery Through Relationship
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme For Troubled Times
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Grandfather Sun and Grandmother Moon Each find me sitting against this tree. Three days and three nights have I watched the sky; During this time I have not taken food Nor spoken with anyone. I am restless, and relieve myself … Continue reading Poem: Lame Deer’s Vision Quest
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Last night in a dream I was looking at my computer screen when the cartoon figure of an ancient prophet appeared, dancing, smiling, and waving a tambourine. The screen instructed me to slide this icon into my applications folder. Even … Continue reading Journaling: Go Rejoicing!
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This mantra is quoted from Kenny Werner’s amazing book for musicians, Effortless Mastery. Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Musicians
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The wind sang low At the window in the hall door. Bless me! exclaimed in a space between rooms, Could that be a visitant there? It was as if a gust of air Had blow aside the wayward view; The … Continue reading Poem: The Angel of the Oak
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most effective forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it can escape its own chatter. The Mindful Bard breath mantras can be practised at … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for the Wounded
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The Master of Perfumes can’t be sighted, But if you head in that direction, neither east nor west, Down that bright hall, And turn when your olfactory sense Alerts you to fragrances like the smell of skies, Scents sweeter than … Continue reading Poem: The Master of Perfumes
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Don’t attempt to sate all your hunger and thirst, to numb all your pain, or to satisfy all your longing. When you do so you leave yourself open to addiction, poor health, dysfunctional relationships, and more longing. Allow space in … Continue reading Journalings: Avoiding Sating
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Wanda Waterman I want to be like you, Tintin; I love that continental flair. I love that Nordic baby face, Those sporty clothes you wear: One blue sweater, one white shirt, Knickers and jacket that go together, Maize polo shirt, … Continue reading Poem: A Study in the Use of the Idealized Image as a Pseudo-Resolution of Neurotic Conflicts
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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty’s self and beauty’s giver. from “Golden Echo” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1884-1889 Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most effective forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme: For Artists
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Gentle refusal is sometimes necessary when you’re expected to go along with demands that you do, think, or profess something that just doesn’t feel right to you. It’s tempting to give in to such pressure in order to preserve the … Continue reading Journalings: The Merciful Tough Stand
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My lesser desires are only husks that split open when the true desires inside are allowed to grow and ripen, letting the husks fall away. My desire to acquire things is a husk over my desire to be free of … Continue reading Journaling: Splitting Husks
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When you’re out walking you can allow yourself to be moved by the smell of roses, or to feel a twinge of pain at the sight of a lamp by a familiar-looking couch, or to feel as if you’ve entered … Continue reading Poem: Evening in a New Town
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How joyfully Being sees through my eyes, hears through my ears, tastes through my mouth, feels through my heart, greets and embraces other Beings through me, revels in its own sweet manifestation in my form! Continue reading Journaling: How Joyfully Being
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Wanda Waterman While I was searching plants out in the forest The foemen of my people took me captive. They burned my fingers pointed in the fire. I didn’t cry, and the women called me brave. Soon I bore a … Continue reading Poem: Flint Fingers
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How sad that so many of us go through life with no idea how much we love each other! If our awareness should be brought to bear on anything, it should be the precious and unique blessing of the existence … Continue reading Journaling: How Sad
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Bedroomery What say quilted peacocks and keepsakes in a drawer? What say paisley patch of dead Jane’s nighty Stitches ripped, stitches stitched Our patient’s black hair winding, Stuck in pillow cream? There is the calico ice-cream seller, Here the tottering … Continue reading Poem: Bedroomery
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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~Rainer … Continue reading Journaling: Personal Story as Artefact
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Wanda Waterman Train Ride On a train Late at night It is impossible to see outside, you know Because of the reflections in the glass. One thing I can think of Is to be dark yourself, No moving pictures to … Continue reading Poem: Train Ride
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