And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth."Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver Read Singing Into the Silence Subscribe to Weekly Wide-Awake...

“I was so willing to pull a page out of my notebook, a day, several bright days and live them as if I was only alive, thirsty, timeless, young enough, to do this one more time, to dare to have nothing so much to lose and to feel that potential dyin...

The dead piled up, thick, fragrant, on the fire escape. My mother ordered me again, and again, to sweep it clean. All that blooms must fall. I learned this not from the Dao, but from high school biology.From “Autumn Leaves” by Marilyn Chin ...

To see takes time. Georgia O'Keefe I have been blogging since 2007. For most of that time, my posts have appeared daily. The main purpose of my blog has been to practice the wide-awakeness that I have studied for more than 20 years. For me, practi...