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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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When seeking the simplest forms of meditation, you just can’t beat long, deep, conscious breaths. Mantras are created to help the process along by giving your mind something to focus on so that it can escape its own continuous prattle. … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme: Open Heart
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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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When seeking the simplest forms of meditation, you just can’t beat long, deep, conscious breaths. Mantras are created to help the process along by giving your mind something to focus on so that it can escape its own continuous prattle. … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme: Understanding
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When it comes to the simplest forms of meditation, you just can’t beat long, deep, conscious breaths. Mantras are created to help the process along by giving your mind something to focus on so that it can escape its own … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme: Metamorphosis
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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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When it comes to the simplest forms of meditation, you just can’t beat long, deep, conscious breaths. Mantras are created to help the process along by giving your mind something to focus on so that it can escape its own … Continue reading Beath Mantra Meme: Expectation
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For achieving stillness and balance, you just can’t beat conscious, deep, long breaths. Mantras are created to help that process by giving your mind something to focus on so that it can escape its continuous prattle. The Mindful Bard breath … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme: Praise
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The Mindful Bard breath mantras can be practised at any time of day, whether you’re meditating, waiting in line, trying to fall asleep, pausing while your friend answers her phone, or enjoying a beautiful landscape. They’re mini-meditations based on one … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme: Sacred Dialogue
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In Africa Wanda Waterman The African students gave each other hell For buying things like hair removal gel, Or coffee pods, or cereal bars, or Coke, Or instant rice, or peppermint foot soak. “How ya gonna find that back in … Continue reading Poem: In Africa
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Music has the weirdest power to help us really feel what we’re feeling in this moment, to hug our anger, to nurse our broken hearts, to celebrate our joys and mourn our sorrows, to soothe our fears, to heal our … Continue reading Journal Entry: The Weird Power of Music
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Breathing in: Beloved Breathing out: Be loved Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme
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Making an issue out of it won’t change it. Making an issue out of it opens the door to dark forces. Your world is bigger than this. You are bigger than this. The hurtful quality of this situation is only … Continue reading Journal Entry: Six Reasons Not to Make Something an Issue
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I see you praising, Sister Tree, and gladly know That I, too, must praise. Continue reading Haiku: Sister Tree
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Why should we believe that the universe was plotted out in the office of a majestic architect, or designed in the workshop of some sublime engineer? Isn’t creation more like a poem that simply writes itself once the poet has … Continue reading Journal Entry: A Love That Must Be Spoken
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Dervish at the Crossroads: A Soundquest Through the First Two Decades of the New Millennium is available here and at many other fine establishments. Continue reading Podcast: Dervish at the Crossroads (excerpt 4)
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John Everett Millais, Ophelia, c. 1851, oil on canvas, Tate Britain, London When we encounter things or people that remind us that the world is still a haven for evil and ugliness, that it bears the smudge of evils of the … Continue reading Journal Entry: What the Beauty Says
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Amazon, USA Amazon, Canada Guernica Editions, Canada Scribd Continue reading Podcast: Dervish at the Crossroads (excerpt 3– She’d Been There)
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Painting: “St. Louis in 1846,” Henry Lewis (1819–1904) Continue reading “St. Louis Blues” (song cover with poetic license) by W.C. Handy
