"The impeded stream is the one that sings." ~Barry

The Real Work

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one...

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“Everything Is Waiting for You”

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the...

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Full Moon

Full Moon   The moon leaned her full, round face so close to mine that her mountains touched the furrows of my brow.   "I have a secret," she said with a wink. I waited. "You're not dead until you're dead," she said. I was a bit incredulous.   "You're not impressed?" the moon asked, looking just a bit perplexed....

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The Journey

"One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind...

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