Category: meditation

• June 30, 2012

  On contempt and compassion

  When contempt is no more, then compassion is all there is. When compassion is all there is, then contempt can have no room.
• June 29, 2012

  Joan’s drawing

  When, a few weeks back, Joan asked me whether I would like to have one of her drawings, I thought only, “Which one?” There are 30, perhaps as many as 40 drawings hanging in the fourth floor hallway. There were ones of younger frail women and others of cocksure men. Neither sort would suit. For…
• June 27, 2012

  Portrait rendered in marker

  My heartfelt thanks to one especially dear friend who drew this remarkable likeness of me.
• June 26, 2012

  What is it like for someone not to ‘get me’?

  “[E]loquence consists of saying the right things and only the right things.” –Rochefoucauld What is it like for someone not to ‘get me?’ She can be focused on me but ask the wrong questions. He can be focused on me but look at the wrong things. She can care for me but fail to recognize…
• June 22, 2012

  Heat and Summer Solstice

  I The temperature will itch toward 100 degrees and we will want to itch. The key will be ascesis: to breath and be calm, to be skin. II One day after the Summer Solstice the gods are smiling divinely. Some are in fits. The rest are philosophical: loving the steadiness of breath. III Joan most…