Beauty in Tragedy

Beautiful Empty Pages by Hafiz What kind of work Can I do in this world? Who would be kind enough To hire an old holy Bum, One with a great reputation For loving the charms Of the lawless And the wild artists and the lewd? Maybe I could become a poet. Maybe the Beloved Will…

I’ve been listening to New Beginning by Tracy Chapman lately. There are so many amazing songs on that CD! This song perfectly describes my belief about the Earth, humanity and this beautiful gift of life we’ve been given. Heaven’s Here On Earth Tracy Chapman You can look to the stars in search of the answers…

Violated I don’t know when it happened. I don’t know where, why or in what way. I only know that it did. I know that this memory is stuck in my body and is hurting me deeply. I am ready to remember and re-member. Just as I felt another big swell of nausea and tears…

breathless (your words leave me this way) crushing multi-layered longing too-good-to-be-true brilliant encapsulating all I feel in words I could never find filaments of love connecting in a measureless space between connectedness(ness) beauty enraptured I am breathless (oh yes)

Here’s some inspiration for these times: “I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.” “Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. I can imagine a fully…