KINDNESS
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness. More »
“…when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.”
–Henry Miller
or…what’s a poet like me doing in an intuitive place like this?
As a Gemini, I have been blessed with an embarrassment of creative riches. Writing, speaking, painting, photography. The arts come easily for me.
But like any Gemini, the matter is really whether I choose to use them or not.
Painting and photography are especially easy and fun because I don’t think about it. I just pick up the camera or brush and begin. And when people enjoy the end result, I’m pleasantly surprised and thrilled — but don’t really put effort into gaining approval.
Writing, on the other hand … hah. More »
