Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 208 – 7/12/2023

THE INNER IS FOUNDATION OF THE OUTER
THE STILL IS MASTER OF THE RESTLESS
THE SAGE TRAVELS ALL DAY
YET NEVER LEAVES HER INNER TREASURE.”

“Empty yourself of everything.  Let the mind rest at peace.  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return… Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of Nature.”

  ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching ~

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in this sacred moment of eternity celebrating the astonishing light of our interbeing and honoring the movement of great turning calling us to come home to the silence of our one heart, i am re-treating around the eternal flame in a dark dream cave where a peaceful stream flows… it is as if i’m in a float tank sans outer sensory stimulation… i re-member five decades ago experiencing a great awakening after real-eye-sing original sin is separation and immediately seeing a clear vision of true reality as the original blessing of oneness… yes, LaoTzu, many thousands and thousands of miles have i traveled in the intervening turns ‘round the sun yet never leaving this inner treasure…

eight years ago on this very day, i am in a parallel rhythm metaphorically floating in the dark in a flotation tank where i begin a lucid cycling journey following behind on my bike the divine child named bliss and her father on their bicycles… i carry my singing bowl in one of my arms and i come to a space where i must stop… here, i begin a wondrous journey exploring open heart u, a dream i’ve been incubating many moons… how much fun to wander these grounds. to meet people who are drawn to be in beloved community, a sangha of the one heart of boundless love where i connect with so many other dog star offspring here on planet in this moment to guide in the opening of inner vision, intuition, to truly serve metaphorically as seeing eye dogs shining light along the pathless path…

holy synchronicity, batwoman! now, 8 years later i am living the same dream albeit this time around it is in an awakened dreamweave as today begins my 11 days of stopping the world and being wu wei to explore and surrender ever more deeply to open heart u… and like the bat people, i hang upside down in the pose of rebirth as still as pythia, the psychedelphic serpent, whispered to me to be as the way of being one with rainbow mystery… it is done, blessed bee, we are humming our way into rainbow mystery…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 149 – 5/14/2021

still longing for the sea, the buoyansea of love energy, i hear beloved singing hauntingly… return, return, return to me… align, attune to cosmic flow gracefully… dance home to the heart of great mystery where we live in peace and harmony…

i’m going to be answering the call to return to the sea and spend some time in silence and stillness surrendered to love with nowhere to go and nothing to do, yes, to being now here…

and taking this moment of eternity to simply be, savoring beloved’s breathing thee… feeling the support of universal community, a friendly universe of buoyansea… dancing you, dancing me, deeper and deeper into the sea, into the sea of great mystery… the boundless ocean of love energy…

my heart smiles with yours/our one heart smiles as we walk the spirit path hand in hand…


Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 32 – 1/17/2019

Named Journey 17 Rumi-Surrender-to-Seahorse-Love

sea epiphany…

winds whisper while waves resound:

surrender to love.

Hell YES! this is the path, the way breath dances me this moment by following the course that love inspires… after moving into a space of bliss filled with what made my heart smile many moons ago and dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude, flowing in the rhythm of the waves is more and more natural, deepening and opening this sojourner to the wide and deep spaciousness of the ocean of love we are…

down here in the depths of true emptiness, true reality,  the the central questions to us all live me calling me into contemplative conversation concerning what really matters… i always come home to love and the one heart we share… love always finds the way, love is the way…

may we all dwell, be well, in the stillness of the vast sea always being love dancing rainbow mystery…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 188 – 6/22/2018

Named Journeying June 22 Wisdom One More Step

If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.

~ Rumi ~

some moments these words are easier to re-member than others and they are always true, paradoxical and true… our interesting times are filled with challenges on so many levels and like ocean waves they rise and pass away and the ocean of joy still remains, peace at the center of the dancing stillpoint… for in this moment, this beautiful moment, we are one vast sunflower field of radiant love… yes, suns exist and moons and rains and clouds and tears and pains and injustice and joy in this moment, in every moment, in every wild precious moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 151 – 5/16/2015

Named Momentous May 16 Whale Watching 2014 010++new moon, new story… tomorrow’s new moon in taurus calls us back to the garden to plant seeds so i don my veil to filter out distractions and enter stillness to listen for and attend to beloved’s song with her often repeated refrain to come back, come back, turn to, return home to the heart… yes, beloved i hear you calling my name and i’m dancing home to you…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 60 – 2/14/2015

Named February Favorites 14  Rumi Surrender to Seahorse Love

Happy Valentine’s Day!

everyday is Valentine’s, everyday is a day to surrender to love, how i love that Valentine is the patron saint of pilgrims, of poets on a journey, of saunterers – the pilgrims headed to the holy lands… i have always loved ee cummings and feel this poem is my theme song for journeying…

Named February Favorites 14 Heart Carry

love sharing the journey with you!