august moon

Staying very still in the darkness,

I became less and less convinced of the fact that I 

actually existed.  

Haruki Murakami

Photo:  Peter Bowers

 Love is a Place

meditation

a practice no one can practice 

abandoning all hope 

free of a doer 

no intention or goal 

accepting and surrendering 

all that arises

going nowhere

for where would one go 

and who is there to go 

giving all to the moment

the moment that cannot be thought 

not knowing, not knowing, not knowing

Billy Doyle
Photo:  Peter Bowers

Beholding

I know that nothing has ever been real

without my beholding it.

All becoming has needed me.

My looking ripens things

and they come toward me, to meet and be met. 

Rainer Maria Rilke

Book of Hours

Photo:  with thanks to Peter Morgan