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When You Want

When you want to learn don’t start with what you don’t know; examine yourself. Remember, your ignorance begins at the beginning. When you want to grow don’t start seeking the sunshine. Connect to the ground. Until your roots are dirty, … Continue reading

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Grounding

To find again the solid ground, the pulse beneath the surging song that lends its subharmonic sound to all that hear and sing along; To seek the strings that touch the heart, that plucked, would shake the listening spine and … Continue reading

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A Sense of Place

Six years, the longest I have ever been in one spot without moving out and on, and still this place does not possess my bones the way it would if I had come of age, or taken my first steps, … Continue reading

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The Roots Must Lead

The roots must lead us further down; it does no good to taste the fruit unless we first have knelt in shadows there among the rotting leaves. The kneeling first, and then the crawl along the coursing, mottled bark that … Continue reading

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A Sense of Touch

Reach down to touch the waiting earth that there beneath your feet, alive, in constant movement hurls through space and yet seems solid in the place where through your bones, like vibrant roots its energy expands and shoots, infusing marrow, … Continue reading

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What is the Secret Song?

What is secret song that the whole world hums underneath its breath, too soft to hear unless you sit in silence, in the dark and listen as intently as you can? And when you hear it once, why it is … Continue reading

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A Path of Wildness

I chose to walk a path of wildness; though these modern city streets are paved and seem to revel in a blindness that believes the urban sprawl has saved us from what nature could remind us: somewhere beneath all this … Continue reading

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