Friday, May 31, 2013

the Newscast


the Newscast

Ordered for us
their portrayal of
selected happenings..
the Real news
on horizon becoming
are silent discoveries
hidden from view
by a few reporters
looking out there 
but inward at 
the same Time..
their startling
bits of news
 waking result of
 polarities at play..
Newscasts with 
only outward attention
may someday find
viewers retreating..
half truths
hardly digestible...



Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Mindfulness


Mindfulness

That blade of grass
imagine
as microcosm of
the universe whole..
that last step
a motion containing
world's busy motions..
when rising at dawn
a pillow placement
enclosing all of
the coming day..
holograms
of mindfulness
joy stimulation...
  

Tears

Obituary...Kathryn Neher

  Kathryn Neher

Kathryn Neher, a beloved friend, the creator of Etheric Therapy, and a provider of good council and great wisdom, passed in peace on April 27th, at the age of 72. Kathryn was born in San Francisco, California on June 2, 1940. Her youth was spent in Mill Valley (Marin County), California. She traveled widely and lived in Panama, Washington, DC, and here in Colorado Springs. Kathryn is survived by her two sisters, Callie Adams and Betsy Anderson; her daughter, Raine Nordby; granddaughter and grandson, Jasmine and Jake Nordby; as well as by her beloved cousin; and many nieces and nephews. A memorial service for Kathryn is to be held at Bear Creek Park on June 2, 2013 from 1pm to 3pm. Please RSVP to Karen Margrave, at email: kmfile13@gmail.com
Published in The Gazette on May 19, 2013

Monday, May 27, 2013

Walk-ins


Walk-ins

Trying
to de-mystify
these most
hidden events..
a soul 
exchange seems
an awkward 
duality..
looking anew
at our identity
as soul/body
polarity..
a new insight
a brief merging
in our work
our reading
our meditation..
resonance with
Jesus or
Einstein
or passerby..
our identity
is altered..
a Walk-in...!

Utopia



Utopia 

is our
Waking Up
to  realize
in substantial
numbers
that our
Constitution is
relational..
collective/
individual
is the polarity
we need know..
not balance
we seek but
continuing
re-balance..
a flow
pole toward
pole..
one surface
two sides...


The proposed Constitution, therefore, [even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists,][1] is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal Constitution, but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them, again, it is federal, not national; and, finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal nor wholly national. (James Madison, Federalist Papers # 39)

Into Harm's Way



Into Harm's Way

The long ago
memories persist
stories of war
back then
reenter today..
for a few
their immersion
brought glimpses
of more..
but stories persist..

Those life endings
ordered and angered..
new remembering
brings fresh pain..
a rejection decided
brought a lifetime
burden of guilt..
a lost limb then
anchored renewal
for others today..

We need ask
on this
day of memories
that all suffering
long and brief
heavy and light
be Sighted anew
accepted at last
sharp edges of
 welcome Light...

Thanks to 
West Point 
Class of 1967
for your
service and suffering..
Documentary:
Into Harm's Way





Sunday, May 26, 2013

Finding the dark


Finding the dark

A reminder 
this morning
of scheme forgotten..
covering one's eyes
(children know)
on occasions needing
 sudden escape..
into that closet
or deep cellar..
quick trip away
a moment
enough for
laughing recovery..
for the Advanced
in their journey
finding a glow
all is together
in that concealed
instant flash... :)


Migration and Refuge (Rainer Maria Rilke)



Migration and Refuge

Charged with the Transfiguration of All Things

The Peasants' Churchyard

How all things are in migration! How they seek refuge in us. How each of them desires to be relieved of externality and to live again in the Beyond which we enclose and deepen within ourselves. We are convents of lived things, dreamed things, impossible things; all that is in awe of this century saves itself within us and there, on its knees, pays its debt to eternity.

Little cemeteries that we are, adorned with the flowers of our futile gestures, containing so many corpses that demand that we testify to their souls. All prickly with crosses, all covered with inscriptions, all spaded up and shaken by countless daily burials, we are charged with the transmutation, the resurrection, the transfiguration of all things. For how can we save what is visible if not by using the language of absence, of the invisible?

And how to speak this language that remains mute unless we sing it with abandon and without any insistence on being understood.

Letter to Sophy Giauque
November 26, 1925

Friday, May 24, 2013

Beauty


Beauty

This illusive
name..
may be serving
in these our
turbulent times..
digging beneath
we find that
 real perceiving
must look twice
to locate truth..
flowers and forms
are just anchors
are not alone..
 glowing edges
come from our
Eye co-creating
consciousness
elevating..
Beauty discovered
just in time...!

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

for Peggy


for Peggy

It is quiet
now..
but her voice
her singing
her robed
presence
 in lakeside 
memory remains..
In our quiet
we remember
her courage 
seeking with us..
our grasping
and glimpses
in our
morning sun..
for her now
in ecstasy 
that mountain
 shadow
as Light
shines anew...


Red Rectangle


Red Rectangle

In symmetry
and colors
a notable image..
meditative model
Hubble finding
in night sky
light years
from here
and Now..

Science musings:

How created..?
A creator or
creation..?

A centered aging
binary system..?
Polarity energy
says it all..?

The unusual shape?
Sacred geometry
expresses itself..?

A definite torus..
All Reality
and Consciousness
expressed as Torus..?

Boundaries of cones
form an X..?
Creation of symmetry
interconnectedness
recognized..?

Why unusual colors
Red and Blue..?
Left and Right
Male and Female
oppositions prevail..?

As hydrocarbon molecules
colors building blocks
for organic life..?
Center Light transforming
to component colors..?

In a few million years
the Red Rectangle nebula
will probably bloom
into a planetary
nebula..
New birth
Now announced...?

for CharlieP

Monday, May 20, 2013

skinny snake


skinny snake

This name
she gave
to that ego
we know
and don't know..
Out of humility
the self ITSELF
declares..
 a simple entrance
but never alone..
accompanying is
a serpentine
uncoiling
some large and 
some small..
our life chore
is recognition
keeping our Eye
on these our 
slithering friends..
and knowing
no matter how
skinny they
don't disappear..
and this more:
their fond wish
merely to grow..


Thanks to Nancy H
snake handler extraordinaire
One Simple Voice
retreat
May 18, 2013










Sunday, May 19, 2013

Requiem


Requiem

Memories of terror
a report of
childhood hearings
of this classical
composition..
words of despair
yet hope and praise..
music with tension
the foreboding drum
repeating four beats
reminders of fears
separations with tears..

How great will be the terror,
when the Judge comes
who will smash everything completely!

In modern moments
our searches scan
always for light..
the light we seek
under coverings
concealed..
This Solemnity
seems our urging
finding our peace..
claiming a vessel
of rich wholeness
on that surface
with two sides...

Let eternal light shine upon them, O Lord,
with your saints forever; for you are merciful.
Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may
perpetual light shine on them
with your saints forever; for you are merciful.

Verdi's Requiem
May 18, 2013





Dandelion


Dandelion

After last manicure
preparation for guests
concern for
their notice of
most careful work..
Yet something was 
hidden concealed from
close diligence..
With the sun
a yellow explosion
just that single one..
deep yellow glory
a message of
imperfection
in quick rising
 Joy...

Friday, May 17, 2013

On the trail


On the trail

I'll let you get past
He said..
a narrowing trail
these constrictions
each and all
are miniature
black holes..
most plentiful now
our traffic snarls
scarcities abound
narrow painful news..
today's trail courtesy
an expanding gesture
in constricting times...

Bird on branch

Bird on branch

first surveying
then throat feathers
ruffle a song..
small so loud
distant response
or solo stage..?
beak to sharpen
red says finch
now departure..
perhaps...



Private Property


Private Property 

What is yours..?
relational questions
begin shouting
in our time..
spirit and matter
dimensions
upper and lower..

a striving
to stand between
change of focus
upper from lower
lower from upper
simultaneous 
middle glow..

then again
What is yours..?
using new lenses
the appearance now:
owning transforms
as a wave..
in one moment
a shifting
toward you
toward others..
breathing informs...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Sitting under clouds


Sitting under clouds

First the attraction
a morning sighting
of new spring warmth..
that initial penetrating
of sun's rays
an altered state..
then drifting clouds
breeze and chill
disappointment aroused
the earlier promise
seemed unfulfilled..
some alternations then
clouds and sun
is morning truth..
feeling the shadows
yield and not
clouds there are
bringing the sun...

KC


KC

She loved me
and I her..
their lives made rich
this living wagging 
being is embedded
in her soul..
their sharing of
each her pain
no separation then
or now..
both courageous in
life's offered struggles
seeking air and sun..
of play and joys
car rides and tennis balls
puzzles.. even rules
memories by the score..
a shadow box
now with memories filled
the shadow conceals
their shared and glowing
Light...

for Susan and KC

Monday, May 13, 2013

Parable Tuning


Parable Tuning

Our life story
darkness and joy
is our parable
our truest name..
each day
a conversation
this dialogue with
our evolving name..
our parable then
if live and well
daily transforms..
and on occasion
noses ahead
urging our follow
invites our listen..
together we are
co-creators
mostly in tune...

Thanks, Mae..!

...and the war came


...and the war came

Those perilous times
with union aflame..
save or destruct
these choices invite
a fateful game..
war introduced 
and the war came..
what would emerge
from chaos unleashed
was new reflection..
naming the offense
to higher dimension..
war must now
prove its worth
promise to continue
finish that work..
those ancient partners
chaos and order
created together
a nation's re-birth...

digesting Lincoln's 
Second Inaugural Address
March 4, 1865



Saturday, May 11, 2013

Wrinkles



Wrinkles

The time honored
brainstorming
collective planning
a filling blackboard
is now denounced..
storming is thought
thought on thought
wrinkle on wrinkle..
what goes begging
is quantum's leap
a leap waiting
for solitude and
an empty slate...

“Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought. Insight is the total absence of the whole movement of thought as time and remembrance. So there is direct perception. It is as though I have been going North for the last ten thousand years, and my brain is accustomed to going North, and somebody comes along and says, that will lead you nowhere, go East. When I turn round and go East the brain cells have changed. Because I have an insight that the North leads nowhere.


I will put it differently. The whole movement of thought, which is limited, is acting throughout the world now. It is the most important action, we are driven by thought. But thought will not solve any of our problems, except the technological ones. If I see that, I have stopped going North. I think that with the ending of a certain direction, the ending of a movement that has been going on for thousands of years, there is at that moment an insight that brings about a change, a mutation, in the brain cell.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)


Friday, May 10, 2013

Names



Names

an old question
yet vital now:
my name
is it really me..?
a unique name
constricts my light
it's my edge
my circumference
rounding a center..
our names today
a good fit..?
does careful scan
find them severed
center from edge..?
remembering then
the center Light
a new name
rejoins once more..
we are ready
to soar...


Battled Years



Battled Years

Our school days
taught the union
was the prize
from blood and
battled years..
a constitution
survival through
loss unimagined..
but now
 this day in
 consciousness rise
a hearing and
 close listening to
 Gettysburg words..
elevating purpose
echoes of equality
teasing new Eyesight
from battled years...

after viewing
"Lincoln"
the movie..


IONS  Meeting, May 16th, 2013

For your consideration:

“The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.”
 --Edgar D. Mitchell

"Dogmas–religious, political, scientific–arise out of erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of “I know.”  "
--Eckhart Tolle

"The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe."
--John Archibald Wheeler

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
--John Archibald Wheeler

"Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else."
----Blaise Pascal

"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."
--Vaclav Havel

“We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.”
― Terence McKenna

“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung

“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawing rooms and libraries?”
― William James

“Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.”
― John Bradshaw

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.
--Eckhart Tolle

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Advocate 2


Advocate 2

Speaking now
in our moment
altered..
might we shift
our perspective
most quickly
below to above..
We then join
in her Light
projecting from 
her new dimension 
 to ours in shadow..
ecstatic with her 
in pulling
those sparks from
darkness below... 

also for
Kathryn 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013


Help

is strangely, something we want to do without, as if the very idea disturbs and blurs the boundaries of our individual identity, it is as if we cannot face how much we need others in order to go on: we are born with an absolute necessity for help, grow well only with a continuous succession of extended hands, and as adults depend upon others for our further successes and possibilities in life even as competent individuals. Even the most solitary writer needs a reader, the most Machiavellian mobster a trusted lieutenant, the most independent candidate, a voter. Not only does the need for help ever leave us alone; we must apprentice ourselves to its different necessary forms, at each particular threshold of our lives. At every stage we are dependent on our ability to ask for specific forms of help at very specific times and in very specific ways. Even at the end, the dignity of our going depends on others willingness to help us die well; the sincerity of their help often commensurate to the help we extended to them in our own life. The need for help is never ending and every transformation has at its heart the need to ask for the right kind of generosity, and from a source other than our own.

From Readers' Circle Essay, "Help"
©2011 David Whyte
Help

is strangely, something we want to do without, as if the very idea disturbs and blurs the boundaries of our individual identity, it is as if we cannot face how much we need others in order to go on: we are born with an absolute necessity for help, grow well only with a continuous succession of extended hands, and as adults depend upon others for our further successes and possibilities in life even as competent individuals. Even the most solitary writer needs a reader, the most Machiavellian mobster a trusted lieutenant, the most independent candidate, a voter. Not only does the need for help ever leave us alone; we must apprentice ourselves to its different necessary forms, at each particular threshold of our lives. At every stage we are dependent on our ability to ask for specific forms of help at very specific times and in very specific ways. Even at the end, the dignity of our going depends on others willingness to help us die well; the sincerity of their help often commensurate to the help we extended to them in our own life. The need for help is never ending and every transformation has at its heart the need to ask for the right kind of generosity, and from a source other than our own. 

From Readers' Circle Essay, "Help"
©2011 David Whyte

Monday, May 6, 2013

Stanton and Virginia


Stanton and Virginia

Together
since the 1940's..
a heart valve replaced
blesses life extension..
Of these two
memories are warm..
his most rare
 enthusiastic welcome
of creative work..
his leadership in
those harsh settings..
his joy and humor
filling that space..
her care and love
her family and ours..
our lives touched
by Ginny and Stant..
many memories have
enriched our years...

Love to you both
from
Charlie and Diane...






  

The Parable Teller


The fixed and static
mostly those nouns
bear our watching..
these are snapshots
fixities in flow
making their claim
as the whole show..!
we should consult
a parable teller
to shift the lights
reveal a new show..
and we need be
especially alert
for those wishing
the teller to go...

Math lesson


Math lesson

for all of us
non-mathematicians
this for our grasp..
there are structures
which are discovered
not invented..
those notations
1 + 1 = 2
these are inventions..
behind these garments
math reality lies
which includes all
especially you..!
the math guy says
Reality = Relationship
all around
up and down...


Max Tegmark's
Mathematical Universe 
Hypothesis







Sunday, May 5, 2013

Gratitude


Gratitude

encloses all with
softened light:
exercise repetitions
as health advisory..
 decisions on paths
taken and not..
 regrets missed connections
weather limitations..
no shorthand LOLs
a throwback letter
to an earlier time
with instant delivery
this best of both
old and new..
an ending with
affection..
an email of note...!

Friday, May 3, 2013

Surprise



Surprise

Encountering
surprises on 
a Friday walk..
one hanging dead
leaf from autumn
suspended through
winter winds
never to fall..
large boulders 
aligned to suggest
an ancient flow..
dead rabbit remains
a coyote brought
this violent end..

walking surprises
seem endless..
those differences
carry life forces
of creation..
we then ask
what background
do these forces
expect to rely..?
consider a white
blank page as 
the poet surveys
Knowing that all
is surprise...!

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Advocate


Advocate

speaking of
she who now
glides on
the other side..
her Knowing 
perceiving now
this our dimension..
beginnings and ends
great and small
joys and interruptions
those difficult hours..
might we sense
in altered moments
a shaded tunnel
her pulling Light...

for Kathryn Neher
departed April 27, 2013

May snow


May snow

not may
it really happened..
May day snow
Spring was dressed
in fine Winter garb..
icicles clinging
now it's day two
snow's hasty exit
icicles are drops
birds now resume
nesting arguments.. 
many schedules 
interrupted...!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Syrophoenician Woman


Syrophoenician Woman

Start 1
with bright light
imagining
unconfined
no inner or outer
a wish arises
for something other
any crumb will do..
with the finding
of that crumb
a jolt startles
from a slumber..

Start 2
with lowly crumb
imagining
containment
inner no outer
a wish arises
for boundary erasure
a merging with
bright light..
with the finding
a jolt startles
from a slumber..

breathwork:  12121212...

Mark 7