The Tide Pulls Everyone

The tide pulls everyone
back to where they belong

round and round

in and out
up and down
expand to nothing

on impermanence

There is so much more to you than you. It's fantastic.

Double Minded

Thomas Merton. Thoughts in Solitude. (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1956).

Without courage we can never attain to true simplicity. Cowardice keeps us "double minded" - hesitating between the world and God. ...And this hesitation makes true prayer impossible - it never quite dares to ask for anything, or if it asks, it is so uncertain of being heard that in the very act of asking, it surreptitiously seeks by human prudence to construct a make-shift answer. pg. 24

Haiku 4

I hear the flicker
For the fifth year, who's counting?
The flicker isn't

Haiku 3

It's not what, but how
we see, hear, touch, smell, taste, think
HOW you do it counts

Haiku 2

7 piles high
The stuff of life you will find
3 layers deep