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I’m back

November 16, 2009

Holy Shit! Has it really been a year and a half since my last journal entry on 5 June, 2008? Yep. Just shy of the mark by only two weeks. Well, I’m back. Welcome home. My shadow precedes me as I walk through the gate. In the intervening 18 months since the last entry I [...]

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Time to Pause

June 5, 2008

For the past two months—or ever since the last piece of wood was put onto the Peace Fire on April 6, thereby allowing it to come to an end after six continuous years of burning— a sense of “empty anticipation” has been a constant companion. Empty in the sense that what I most desire right [...]

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To see or not to see

December 20, 2007

Twenty years ago my optometrist told me that because of a mild astigmatism in each of my two eyes I should wear glasses to correct both the near and far “imperfections” of my sight. I took his advice for reading and sculpting, but didn’t care to increase the focal length of “perfect” vision beyond reading [...]

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A slow day is good

October 24, 2007

How will time judge me? Damned if I know. My accomplishment is, I got up today. I tried to write a poem. K’ung-fu Tzu said, “The study of the low penetrates the high.” Sam Hamill The poetry of Hamill speaks to me on those slow mornings when high inspiration fails in its bid to whip [...]

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Helpers seen and unseen

July 16, 2007

Your cells are a country of ten thousand trillion citizens, each devoted in some intensively specific way to your overall well-being. There isn’t a thing they don’t do for you. They let you feel pleasure and form thoughts. They enable you to stand and stretch and caper. When you eat, they extract the nutrients, distribute [...]

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A solstice vision

June 20, 2007

Winter solstice eve in the southern hemisphere. The sun sets early; too early. Pushes the man, who has been outside sculptling, inside to find the hearth’s warmth. Pushes him inward, into himself, to fathom this longest passage of dark time. By fireside, as a second, tinier “winter sun” heats up both the soup and those [...]

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Acceptance

May 17, 2007

Oh, Divine One. Life has tumbled me in so many harsh ways that, now, the bones of this scrubbed body lie clean and free of the last resistance to Love. Take these bones then, And, at cliff’s edge, place in a nest of she-oak needles, lichen and bedfordia. Softly, Your heart flies in on dimming [...]

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A pill, a kidney, a knee and a few stones

March 15, 2007

After complaining at the local medical clinic this week that my right testicle was constantly sore, the doctor prescribed Voltaren, a strong anti-inflammatory. Well, the drug didn’t do much for my balls, but it sure did wonders for my knees. For the first time in years, I felt totally free and fleet of foot (like [...]

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Keep on doing

October 26, 2006

A few weeks back (October 4) I posted the story, The Tiny moving the Mighty. I also sent a version of this story to a Tasmanian online news journal so “the locals” could have a read of what I thought was a good yarn. Well, the feedback was mostly negative. An example: I think I [...]

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Equality attained?

September 21, 2006

On Tuesday I went down to the beach early in the day to sit and watch my Melbourne friend and his son catch some surf. They were excited. Now, a couple of days later, Craig and Ben and the rest of their family have continued their journey up the east coast of Tasmania. And me? [...]

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