No need to go anywhere
a mantra for a chaotic world
stepping into spacious solitude:
stilling the monkey mind,
quieting all that is extraneous
no need to leave this moment
for the mountains, rivers, gardens--
it's happening here, right now!
kjl '20
cold monday
bahian music plays softly as the cold gray darkens near four p.m. in central upstate n.y. practicing on an old upright piano facing a stream, shared with five cats racoons deer, chickadees and sparrows apple orchard across the street catches the departing light then the land grows blanketed with a quick heavy snow soon in the darkest night sky... a million stars lighting our way to freedom
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