I’m back in Missouri, sooo enjoying garden (strawberries are the most incredible thing to grow – great ground cover, and then they just start giving you this wealth of jewels, a quart of them a day! Wow!), life, house, man, life, body, meditation, life…Scotland was tops, have written about it…
Here’s a pic of a marvellous kitty my brother Ian and I met at the house of an old friend’s, in Sausalito. It is a leopard cat, a cross of some sort of jungly feline with house cat. A descendant of this one won a prize in Monaco and had…
One evening I stood in a huge room with about fifty other people, in our meditation Commune in Poona, India. We were all experienced, intense, dedicated seekers-after-our-own-truth. The facilitator of the group asked us to begin walking around the room, looking at each other; we were to notice if anyone…
The moon is shy but bold, The moon’s made of ground goblins, The moon is a mirror. The moon doesn’t belong to me, The moon is a Frisbee, Is a scoop of lily ice cream. The moon cried louder than cats do, I heard it and came running, But then…
And never sacrifice; for if you sacrifice you cannot forgive and you cannot forget.Osho Freedom makes even love beautiful.Osho I am not talking here about the natural clinging of the infant to its mother; primate babies, including humans, have a powerful grip designed to enable them to grasp their mother’s…
This is a hearty, tasty dip or bread-spread or can be put on pasta or raw veg. Put in the blender: 6 or 7 large green olives, pits removed 3 cloves garlic, peeled 1 can organic salad beans, rinsed about 1/3-1/2 cup tahini sea salt and freshly ground pepper to…
This is a delicious cold nourishing drink without sugar, caffeine, or dairy. Pu in the blender 2 frozen bananas (freeze them already sliced), about 2 cups unsweetened almond milk, a jot of good vanilla extract, 2 ice cubes, and 2 tsps Pero or other grain coffee powder. Add 1 envelope…
I accompanied a horse-shoeing friend on her rounds one day in the rolling hills around Liberty, Mo. All the snow and mud and old barns and so on gave me the heebie-jeebies – farms for some reason bring up acute claustrophobia in me – but the biggest annoyance was being…
Two-year-old Virginia is missing Her parents look throughout the tidy Wooden house Where yellow curtains glow They go outside and peer In the shady woods Where a brook chuckles a sudden secret And small shy forest mammals Are gone to earth…
After much valiant and serious facing of the big bad world of publishing, as pertains to my book-which-is-trying-out-its-big-strong-wings-but-is-yet-new, events evolved into such a place that it was relevant and indeed correct for me to cease my struggles, scrounging, and bullet-biting for a little while. I could hardly believe it…freedom, after…
The Swiss chalet where I was staying has a beautiful kitchen, but I didn’t want to lay in a lot of supplies, as I was just there for a few weeks before taking off to Holland. Too, shopping involved dragging a rolling caddy up very steep hills – an opportunity…
In a Purple Greeting Card for Nisarg Which has on it a painting of a full moon blobbily luminous behind the branches of the huge tree which borders the courtyard of the pyramids in the commune in Poona (What is life but a pyramid Near which is a…