yes- love is a place... i stand here.

love is a place


& through this place

of 
love move


(with brightness of peace)


all places



yes is a world


& in this world of


yes live


(skillfully curled)
all worlds

-e.e.cummings

Sharing the writing of a friend

Here is another of Michael's blog posts around the Art of Self Reflection.

It's inexplicably good!

http://www.herosjourneyfoundation.org/blog/?p=512

Return

This was last Friday Night's pre-sunset at the Heros' Journey for Women. Streamers of light from behind a building rain cloud, mounting the ridge from the valley below. It made for a beautiful sunset, but this moment before the sunset was what made every woman on the deck stop what she was doing and take this in.

After a week of togetherness and deep mindfulness each of us was ready to simply stop our activity and action of preparing and eating our dinner, and take a moment to notice this beauty. Knowing that our taking this moment would not adversely affect anyone else, knowing that it was actually very important that each of us who wanted to take this beauty-pause be able to do so. It felt magical.

I want to keep pausing like that to take in moments of beauty. I want to let this photo remind me to do that.

Silence

Over the last few months, I have begun a practice to get more comfortable with silence.
Just being able to weave it in and out of my daily life, as I often do with music.... including it as a conscious part of  a day, rather than just what is left over when I don't have music playing.

Within the silence, I am finding quite a lot of sound! The appearance of crickets makes silence sound like summer, a joyful noise that celebrates the season.