Nature, Make Me Your Humble Servant – Page 4

To everything, there is a poem under heaven

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 9, 2014 It’s early March, and the sun is extremely busy right now melting gazillions of snowflakes into water. I am looking for a poem about sun, snowmelt, staying centered, finding a job, selling my house, getting married and listening to the birds — specifically chickadees, as they trill their…… Continue reading To everything, there is a poem under heaven

Best peach recipe (ever)

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, September 15, 2013 Prep time: your entire life until now Actual prep time: 5-10 minutes Ingredients: peaches, heavy cream, honey 1. Invite someone nice over. 2. Take out a bowl. There’s a white bowl from my childhood, a milky white one that I don’t remember ever not seeing growing up, the…… Continue reading Best peach recipe (ever)

Tall Grasses Meditation

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 7, 2012 Lie outside in a field of tall autumnal grass anywhere you can find one – or in the grasses of your mind’s eye. Dip yourself down into the pale yellow almost white stalk color that pits itself so perfectly against the blue-gray of a blustery October sky. You…… Continue reading Tall Grasses Meditation

Rapt, wrapped, rapped

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, August 19, 2012 The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is…… Continue reading Rapt, wrapped, rapped

March Memo

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 11, 2012 In March, the world — an orb — cracks like an egg and life hatches. Sneaks and spills and breaks and whispers out, and we who see and salute it are the lucky ones. In March, robins return and flocks of little brown birds explode through the sky…… Continue reading March Memo

All saints, all souls, all seekers

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 30, 2011 It is the Day of the Dead. And. Although I say a prayer for the souls who have passed over, who are no longer with us as we knew them – while I am saying a prayer for peace and momentum on their untethered and zero-gravity journeys, wading…… Continue reading All saints, all souls, all seekers