Pilgrimage
By Don / Date: March 29th, 2017
Last summer I was in San Francisco for a day before coming home to Canada with my boys. We had just done an 11 day, 2500mile road trip. The kids were exhausted by the distance we had covered and all we had seen. There was one more thing I wanted to see – and on […]
Net
By Don / Date: March 25th, 2017
Ego is the net That catches All the crap You are not Make the holes bigger You are everything
something
By Don / Date: March 24th, 2017
There is something here The uninterrupted cloth of my mind Too flat Punctuated by a thorn Thank God A little thing only felt as I run My hand across its smoothness I think it is the tip Of the whole point How come you are here? What do you have to teach me? […]
this moment
By Don / Date: March 18th, 2017
Breathing in I feel into it the tears well the gasp as I try to hold balance? Let them come No idea No plan No agenda No fucking clue The only thing that hurts is letting go of pain this moment is perfect
Pickup up the thread…
By Don / Date: March 17th, 2017
This continues to be quite the trip. Last week I had my last EMDR session – for now. I sensed the need to step back and integrate what had just unfolded over the first few sessions. What bought me to this in the first place was the desire to get past an underlying place of […]
overheard on a recent telephone
By Don / Date: March 8th, 2017
“I never know how to end these conversations.” “Me neither. How about we never end them?” “Deal.”
anniversary
By Don / Date: March 6th, 2017
…of? This first weekend in March 2016, a year ago, I was working my way out of a serious funk. I did it. This post is a celebration of sorts – and a recognition of what passed. A completion. And it is creating a clearing; space for what comes next; I think I need all […]
Half-baked Dharma
By Don / Date: March 4th, 2017
It begins in Ireland – Eire. Not chronologically. Not quite. Early in 1998 I attended a retreat at Dzogchen Beara in West Cork – just outside Castletownbeare at a place called ‘Garranes’ with Sogyal Rinpoche. In my 20s I had, after the loan of Steven Levine’s ‘A Gradual Awakening’ from a friend got interested in […]