Desire and Letting Go

"Buddhism is big on “not clinging.” When you cling to your desires and expectations — even after life crosses its arms and says, “Nope” — you suffer. We must accept that life is not always going to give us what we want. When we give up trying to control things we can’t, we feel better." - https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/ancient-wisdom-reveals-7-rituals-that-will-make-you-happy I had never thought of Letting Go as a Misplaced Desire, betimes.    Sometimes the hardest thing we will

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Samhain: A Time of Letting Go

“Yea, she hath passed hereby, and blessed the sheaves, And the great garths, and stacks, and quiet farms, And all the tawny, and the crimson leaves. Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms, Under the star of dusk, through stealing mist, And blessed the earth, and gone, while no man wist. With slow, reluctant feet, and weary eyes, And eye-lids heavy with the coming sleep, With small breasts lifted up in stress of sighs, She passed, as shadows pass, among the sheep; While the earth

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I Hear The Train Leaving

“… And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth’s only furrow.” –Pablo Neruda, “Lightless Suburb” I am grateful to have spent the day with my brother, Doug and his wife, Ev, yesterday.  They called and we went on the spur of the moment.  We spent the day playing cards and remembering Richard and the fun times and how special he was to us.  We honored him in ways he would have loved to have seen us do so.  How important he was in

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Philosophy of Mark-Making

A Woman of New Beginnings