Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 125 – 4/20/2023

“There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Earth.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

listen, listen, listen to Beloved’s heart song calling us, in this moment of eternity of celebrating the astonishing light of being on this magical day of green, to re-member the jewels are inside and all we have to do/be is open to their radiance filling us with soular power magnificent enough to power the cosmos with love…

dear sangha of light and love let’s conspire deeply through our one heart dropping into the center of being and taking another deep re-joy-sing breath, let’s drop down further into the core of being, the tiny space of the heart feeling the love we are, the love we transmit to the earth, the waters of life, our friends, family, trees, flowers, sunsets, sunrises, the moon, pet people, stone people, dolphins, whales, feathered people, ancestors…

let us rest here in this present moment, the only moment where love is all there is… here in the stillpoint of creation, open the heart a little more and take this beautiful moment to listen to the profound silence of the heart and beloved’s message for you…

now, in the flowering field of love, breathe in the golden light flowing like raindrops from our earthmother who loves us so and breathe in the golden light flowing so generously from the skyfather’s morning star as we listen in the heart to the song singing us… yes, the moment is now to fall in love again and again in every moment with every breath…

deepest bows…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 125 – 4/20/2022

“There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Earth.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

listen, listen, listen to Beloved’s heart song calling us, in this moment of eternity of celebrating the astonishing light of being, to re-member the jewels are inside and all we have to do/be is open to their radiance filling us with soular power magnificent enough to power the cosmos with love…

dear sangha of light and love let’s conspire deeply through our one heart dropping into the center of being and taking another deep re-joy-sing breath, let’s drop down further into the core of being, the tiny space of the heart feeling the love you are, the love you transmit to the earth, the waters of life, your friends, family, trees, flowers, sunsets, sunrises, the moon, pet people, stone people, dolphins, whales, feathered people, ancestors…

let us rest here in this present moment, the only moment where love is all there is… here in the stillpoint of creation, open the heart a little more and take this beautiful moment to listen to the profound silence of the heart and beloved’s message for you…

now, in the flowering field of love, breathe in the golden light flowing like raindrops from our earthmother who loves us so and breathe in the golden light flowing so generously from the skyfather’s morning star as we listen in the heart to the song singing us… yes, the moment is now to fall in love again and again in every moment with every breath…

deepest bows…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 214 – 7/18/2017

Named Jubilee July 18 Lovingkindness Field

in a field of love may we walk
all day long may we walk
through the turnings may
we walk
on the trail of pollen
may we walk
with love in our one heart may we walk
with  love before us may we walk
with love behind us may we walk
with love above us may we walk
with love all around us may we
walk
in any age, wandering on a trail of
love, lively, may we walk
in any age, wandering on a trail of
love, living again, may we walk
it is beginning in love
it is deepening in love

it is always being love

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 221 – 7/24/2016

Named Joyous July 24 Lovingkindness Field

today’s continuation of the fullest ever birth celebration is one flowing moment in the field of the beloved seeing love everywhere… in friends’ expressions, in strangers’ conversations, in flies buzzing around the picnic, in long lines where patience reigns, in screaming children crying out in frustration, in jubilant children of all ages restored by the sound  and the feel of water and wind… every moment of presence, a birth of love… all our light wave relations coming home to shore breathing in the rhythm of the river of joy below the river always being love…

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“In the process of discovering bodhichitta, the journey goes down, not up. It’s as if the mountain pointed toward the center of the earth instead of reaching into the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward the turbulence and doubt. We jump into it. We slide into it. We tiptoe into it. We move toward it however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictably of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, our companions in awakening from fear. At the bottom we discover water, the healing water of bodhichitta. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.”

—Pema Chödrön from When Things Fall Apart