The Guest House ~ Rumi This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each [...]
The following prayer is from John Two-Hawks' CD Earth, Fire, Water and Wind: TWO-HAWKS LAHKOTA PRAYER: Maka Wakan, sacred Earth, we have lost our way. Once we knew you as Mother now we wander in darkness, lost and empty Help us to find our way back to you Grandmother. You are the ground that feeds [...]
We are on the edge of winter in the Northwoods. All the trees have shed their leaves. We've had a little snow, and in shady areas it's clinging to the moss like sweet icing. Every morning I break a thick inch of ice from my water buckets. It's time to empty them. Time to stow the [...]