Tag: Meditation

• March 6, 2013

  Moon is sun: Storm meditation

  An opening revealing moon in morning. Sun is moon and fog is distance. Wind churning, churning world, sun returning as moon. Moonwinds churn, turning earth, returning in thickness, white luminescence. Sitting, breathing, enveloped, revealed. Revealed? Revealing moon; revealing light, lavender, lavendered light: lightening lavender, paling hill.
• February 13, 2013

  Meditative jewelry: Jewelry that resonates with life

  Yesterday I wrote about a relatively new social group on the historical stage: open-minded, self-reflective individuals who are seeking they know not what through the regular practice of meditation. Today, I’d like to explore what led Alexandra and me to create Meditative Jewelry. Inspired by life in rural Appalachia, Alexandra’s collection is conceived in that…
• February 12, 2013

  ‘Meditation is a quest that the bewildered embark upon…’

  Intellectual Context One of the founders of sociology, August Comte, wondered what could provide the social cohesion for individuals living in the midst of a secular age. He posited a ‘religion of humanity’ to fill the void left by positive religion, a void that Emile Durkheim would later call ‘anomie’ in his attempt to understand…
• 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…
• June 16, 2012

  Rain song and sun song

  Rain Song When we carried it uphill, the rain hurt our backs. When we let it run downhill, the rain brought us back. When we ran with it seaward, the rain fell on our backs. When we danced with it skyward, the rain sung to us back. When we hummed to it softly, the rain…