November 2021 Blog Posts (10)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Here is a little gallery to honor the Wild Turkey - a spectacular bird, especially when you have a chance to see it it good light that highlights its iridescent feathers. All photos are from my back woods in Massachusetts.…

Photo: Jackson, Mississippi circa 1935

“The Negro Mother”  by Langston Hughes

Children, I come back today

To tell you a story of the long dark way

That I had to climb, that I had to know

In order that the race might live and grow.

Look at my face…

"Our life is like a vast net connecting us to all other lives on this planet, and each part of this net is linked to all of the rest. The essence of our life is not limited within the confines of our bodies but rather is distributed across all the people and things that we are connected to. To think about our life in a way that treats…

Song Of My Soul By Steven Hutchinson

The song I wrote below was inspired by the beautiful old song of Snatam Kaur in the video below. It's kind of been playing in my head for a while now, so I thought I'd share it with all you…

The body is like a November birch facing the full moon...reaching into the cold heavens. In these trees there is no ambition, no sodden body, no leaves,

Nothing but bare trunks climbing like cold fire...

It is a joy to walk in the bare woods...The moonlight is not broken by the heavy leaves.

The leaves are down, and…

"Resting our awareness on the breath, we focus on the present moment, not chasing after memories from the past or speculating about the future. Through practices such as this, inner contentment can grow progressively. Sometimes when we feel a little helpless, or think we lack something, or feel lost, if we remember to focus on our…

Art by Kinuko Craft

Forget about enlightenment.

Sit down wherever you are

And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones.

Open your heart to who you are, right now,…

Hi everyone. I'd like to ask for your prayers and healing energy. Even though I've had asthma all my life, Ive lived a relatively healthy life. But Thursday night I wound up in the emergency room with severe shortness of breath and wheezing brought on by a regular cold virus (not Covid) and the cold weather. I know I can…

Image by Enkel Dika

We do not become healers.

We came as healers. We are.

Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become storytellers.

We came…

I'll leave some of my blogs here, for pleasure, if you're interested...

https://culturtimemyblog.wordpress.com/

https://alamentheaven.wordpress.com/

http://mypeaceme.blogspot.com/

http://thevoiceofnada.blogspot.com/