Reparations Moon
New Moon November 2019 Reparations Moon Breathing space to invite an accounting of how blank, bare & bleak a life lived only for oneself becomes No light at night makes for clear mourning: all the loss made spacious & glittering, at rest in stars & dark music Gone Moon of Reparations: may it birth radical […]
Suiko: the Abbess formerly known as Betsy
On a sweltering eve of the August full moon, I knelt before my Buddhist teacher in a beautifully-crafted Japanese-style Zendo at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel, California, surrounded by 70-some monks and visitors and received my dharma name. I had been preparing for the ceremony for nearly two years, sewing a rakusu (patch robe), […]
Moon Questions
Full Moon November 12, 2019 moon questions* Where did you come from? (Which side of which place?) What do you mean, It happens by itself? When you climb the ladder of light, how do you know when you arrive? Why do feelings repeat? How does sound become music? Does color iridesce the same temperature across […]
