Category Archives: Inspirations

CHANGE IS POSSIBLE ~ Rob Brezsny Ancient Hawaiians had a sport they called lele kawa, in which they dived off cliffs into the ocean. Pu’u Keka’a, a tall volcanic cinder cone in West Maui, was a perfect place from which to jump, but everyone avoided it. Legend held it was a taboo place: “the leaping place ofContinue reading “A Muse for a Monday”

To be honest, all the inspiration right now comes from the idea of new growth, new beginnings, new possibilities – the soft greenness of fresh leaves, the perfume of a first open flower, the sound of peepers and chattering finch, the buzz of the bumble, a warm spring breeze and a cool night, damp earthContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”

AFTER HALF A CENTURY ~ Chimako Tada Finally after half a century, a clearly observable law has been found:For mankind, all matters proceedAlong geometric lines (If you put one grain of rice on the first intersection of a game board, two grains of rice on the second, four grains of rice on the third, andContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”

book at hand: “Recently I’ve been thinking about the body and bush aesthetics, or just like Indigenous aesthetics, and spending time thinking about mosquito bits – picking berries and picking tea, and like, paying for them with your blood…I was being chewed up by mosquitoes there and I started wondering, do mosquitoes have blood memory?Continue reading “A Musing for Monday”

Moon by Billy Collins The moon is full tonightan illustration for sheet music,an image in Matthew Arnoldglimmering on the English Channel,or a ghost over a smoldering battlefieldin one of the history plays. It’s as full as it wasin that poem by Coleridgewhere he carries his year-old soninto the orchard behind the cottageand turns the baby’sContinue reading “Monday’s Muse for the Snow Moon”

It has taken me a lifetime to understand the nature and necessity of compassion. To see in every person I meet a human being that is trying as all of us do to live a life based on inadequate information and insufficient capacities. There is not a one of us who has not hurt anotherContinue reading “Monday’s Muse, a life well lived: Stephen Harrod Buhner”

Cold moons of winterThe wolf and the stormIce crystals splinterThe long night is bornGrey shadows lopeOver the snowYet still there is hopeThough fires burn low. ~ Pete Crowther

witch (n.) Old English wicce “female magician, sorceress,” in later use especially “a woman supposed to have dealings with the devil or evil spirits and to be able by their cooperation to perform supernatural acts,” fem. of Old English wicca “sorcerer, wizard, man who practices witchcraft or magic,” from verb wiccian “to practice witchcraft” (compare Low German wikken, wicken “to use witchcraft,” wikker, wicker “soothsayer”). OED says ofContinue reading “Lunar Festival Muses”