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Breath Mantra Meme for Acceptance
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Poem: My Bicycle Route
If you start riding down that dirt road You’ll pass, by turns, Long aisles of tamarack and pine (Just think of Glooscap) And then a stretch of poplar, birch, and maple (Think, now, of Robin Hood). The trees are shoed … Continue reading Poem: My Bicycle Route
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Journaling: After Watching “Deprogrammed” (2015 documentary)
The parents who insisted their children be deprogrammed were also deceived, enslaved, and manipulated by a cult best known as “the American dream.” It wasn’t the deception, enslavement, and manipulation of their children that hurt them— it was the fact … Continue reading Journaling: After Watching “Deprogrammed” (2015 documentary)
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Breath Mantra Meme for Transcendence
It may take a while for the meaning of this mantra to become clear, but when it does the reward is exquisite. Deep, conscious breathing is … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Transcendence
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Poem: The Trapper’s Wife
Bring down my woolen shawl, Elude, And your pipe, and the blackberry wine. Wrap them in the quilt, Elude, And come to the river With your pretty white smile, your black moustache, And your long hair ahangin’ in your eye. … Continue reading Poem: The Trapper’s Wife
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Journaling: Baiting Creativity
Trying to force creative production is ineffective, as creative forces don’t respond well to external pressure. To begin creative work we need only provide time and space to creativity and to then bid it come. Sometimes we’re at a place … Continue reading Journaling: Baiting Creativity
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Breath Mantra Meme for True Belonging
Being longs for you. This is an urgent longing. Your need to be intimately connected with Being is just as urgent. Perhaps you’ve already heard the … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for True Belonging
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Poem: The Lilacs are Wilting From the Trees
Il pleure dans mon cœurComme il pleut sur la ville ;Quelle est cette langueurQui pénètre mon cœur ? from “Il pleure dans mon coeur” by Paul Verlaine My heart fades within me Like the rot on those blooms. From where … Continue reading Poem: The Lilacs are Wilting From the Trees
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Journaling: On Hurrying
How much hurrying is ever really necessary or frutiful? Isn’t hurrying just a way of mindlessly obeying an infantile, clamoring ego, either ours or someone else’s? If hurrying ever does create “extra” time, we hardly know what to do with … Continue reading Journaling: On Hurrying
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Breath Mantra Meme for the True Self
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 the True Self
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Poem: God Seeing
When I look out upon this earth and see These breathing things so seemingly self-making (Oh, how they burst and sprout and raise their faces!), These quickened things so solemnly sky-staring (This sky with lights and waters overspilling!), I want … Continue reading Poem: God Seeing
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Journaling: Not Me, Me
Image: Anonymous, Marcia Painting Self-Portrait Using Mirror (detail), in Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris, c. 1403. Bibliothèque Nationale de France. NOT ME What looks back What wallows in pain, seeking more pain What seeks to justify itself What clings to the past What feels … Continue reading Journaling: Not Me, Me
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Metro Demons on a Rainy Halloween in Montreal
Thought this couple was just too cute not to share. Continue reading Metro Demons on a Rainy Halloween in Montreal
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Breath Mantra Meme for Unconditional Happiness
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 Unconditional Happiness
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Song Demo: Bougie Town
Thank you, Giorgio Finetti, for this amazing composition and musical arrangement. This song was loosely based on my poem “Evening in a New Town,” published in Tigertail. Continue reading Song Demo: Bougie Town
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Journaling: On Comfort
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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Breath Mantra Meme for Cultivating Gratitude
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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Song Demo: Oh, You!
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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Journaling: Remember That the One
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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Breath Mantra Meme for Rejection
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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Song Demo: Blue Moon (de una niña rebelde)
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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Poem: In the Garden
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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Journaling: The Meaning of Time Travel on Star Trek
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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Journaling: Mastery Through Relationship
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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Breath Mantra Meme For Troubled Times
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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Poem: Lame Deer’s Vision Quest
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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Journaling: Go Rejoicing!
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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Breath Mantra Meme for Musicians
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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Poem: The Angel of the Oak
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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Breath Mantra Meme for the Wounded
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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Journalings: Avoiding Sating
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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Breath Mantra Meme: For Artists
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
The Mindful Bard 