every outbreath, an emptying… every inbreath, a re-membering…

“I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

while walking the camino of peace and purification today on the eve of the 20 year anniversary of 9-11, i re-watch Fahrenheit 9-11 and it brings back so much, so many echoes that have been muted for a while and i’m so struck by how many of the themesborn out of that day are being replayed and replayed and that question we sang during the Viet Nam war – when will we ever learn? flows through again and again impelling me to surrender to love and live the mystery we call life in ever widening circles of compassion…

beyond our own lives, may we build the great
arch of unimagined bridges passing through the harshest dangers and most profound grief returning to our origins – the world of wonder and wisdom when we see and be through the clear inner light stretching us across the chasm of the paradox of reality…

above the mountains
where the condor and eagle turn into the light again, may we too rise from the ashes like the phoenix flying into freedom…