Sphere of Influence or Praise Song for the Warriors “Good hoop ... alerts you to what’s already there.” — John Edgar Wideman In a gym somewhere in Oakland, a girl makes a no-look pass, and the ball lands on the bow of a ship anchored off the banks of a city the Cayuga call “Big Town Lying There,” the ball coming to rest at the feet of Henry Hudson, who is wearing Air Jordans …
Art & Spirit
Only Your Name
In this excerpt from Rabindranath Tagore's The Lover of God, Radha speaks to her friend and confidant about her longing for Krishna: her "Dark Lord Syama." The Yamuna is a tributary of India's Ganges river. It's in the forest along the banks of the Yamuna that Krishna dances and plays with the gopis: the cowherds enchanted by his divine music. In this poem, the "luminous Yamuna" can be …
Unbroken
Like The Prow Of A Boat "Be, therefore, like the prow of a boat: It cleaves the water, yet it leaves in its wake water unbroken." Is this not one of the best-ever grasshopper teaching moments!? Let's explore this image in a bit more depth--but first, here it is in all its glorious original context ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDZOa1rEp0 Leaving No Trace This image--of the …
Happy New Year!
Purple stars are, of course, the very best :) Sneetches on Beaches Enjoy! * …
Practice Notes: Magic
Tip Of The Tongue I've been feeling curious, as of late, about the experience of not-quite-but-almost remembering something: of having it right on the tip of the tongue, so to speak. In these moments, there's the distinct sense of knowing that I know something--of almost palpably feeling the presence of this information, pressing up from who-knows-where--yet the final revelation of it has yet to …
Parallel Lines
Joy “Don’t cry, it's only music,” someone’s voice is saying. “No one you love is dying.” It’s only music. And it was only spring, the world’s unreasoning body run amok, like a saint’s, with glory, that overwhelmed a young girl into unreasoning sadness. “Crazy,” she told herself, “I should be dancing with happiness.” But it happened again. It happens when we make bottomless …