I’m reading Mark Nepo’s The Exquisite Risk: Daring To Live An Authentic Life, and I’ve come to the chapter entitled “You Must Reverse the Haiku.” Here’s Nepo, explaining. “So, the question each day becomes: When pressed by life, do I bridge or isolate? Do I reconnect the web of life and listen to its wisdom? […]
Shade of Your Own Heart
I loved this story, and I thought I’d share it with you. It’s from Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening. While you’re mulling that over, as I’ve done for several days now, I offer up another small gift—a joyous sort of anthem. Seryn’s “We Will All Be Changed.” [Post image: Oak Tree by 4score on […]
Braille of Heart
This comes from Mark Nepo’s amazing read-in-a-year (or read-at-your-leisure) book called The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want By Living the Life You Have. Live in Your Hands “Several years ago, while doing a poetry reading in New York City, I encountered an angry young man who had just seen a woman mugged. […]