Peripatetic Moon
Peripatetic Moon – solvitur ambulando – Full Moon February 27, 2021 moon of moments:orange carp glistening in a leap free of watercrying of foxes just before dawn in Julyscissor-tailed flycatcher in reposevole in snow tunnel untouched by winda white pine falls lifting a halo of earth onto its side there is the gait […]
Moon of Snow Dawn
Moon of Snow Dawn New Moon, February 11, 2021 In these moments of impeccable reckoning our life may sometimes yield its guarded borders to color blue from black, into annatto & turmeric as sunshine in the liberation gap of the outbreath gift & refuge a widening aperture to live the painting merge synonymous […]
New Deal Now
New Deal Now Full Moon, January 28, 2021 Tonight, right now, the moon is an avocado, a silken green tornado in black skin ready to remake the world in brilliance— a giant seed round with lifeforce, the moon goes to Washington the moon beams Andromeda the moon is a face of the goddess […]
Horizon Renewal Moon
Horizon Renewal Moon New Moon, January 13, 2021 We are living the kind of nadir that Arabic astronomers knew: the point furthest from zenith. As when the sun barely rises over the crestfallen evergreens & shuttles through pure air to settle over leafless birch: though there are birds still singing & flying […]
Bare Branch Bodhicitta
Bare Branch Bodhicitta Full Moon December 29, 2020 Meditate on whatever provokes resentment. —Chogyam Trungpa mice ate the organic soap, the new tires are low on air, reading glasses scratched more white temple hairs […]
Edges of the Sky Moon
Edges of the Sky Moon New Moon December 14, 2020 Night stretches out in the coldenrapturing frost gardens, drapedover seven horizons, stars upon mother’s capeas she calls through sleeping valleys—her quaking aspen voice bow-shaped& quietly encouraging, a warm breathof love turns the animal dream ancestral:far out on a long voyage, no going back,but onward the […]
Breathe In All Directions
Breathe In All Directions Full Moon November 30, 2020 I dig into earth with wet handswanting a bridge to the sunto appear open & thickly peopledby the happy ancestors of ceremony:grandmothers whose essence is essentialcornsilken, resplendent, nurturing, benevolentgrand uncles flamboyant trans & passing as wolfnight heron, river valley, milky waystrong sisters of the light, engaged […]
Moon By Spilling Stars
Moon by Spilling Stars, By Jewel-like Frost, By Forest Song, By the Baying of Bodies By Blessing, By Intention & Release, By Graceful Design New Moon November 15, 2020 the wish to grow like curled mist flows & covers our river’s depth challenging navigation that cry from the woods a being whom […]
Speak the Many Names of Beauty
Speak the Many Names of Beauty Full Moon November 1, 2020 Abiding in this ephemeral world like a lotus in muddy water the mind is pure & goes beyond thus we bow to Buddha. —Verse of Purity While Abiding in the World Artists gather in this world to wade deep into the circle […]
Painting Our Way to Peace, a free online workshop
Art can transform our perceptions of reality and inspire experiences of profound peace. How can the process of making do the same? How can artmaking, crafting, or any physical realm activity be a spiritual practice? Join Founder and Abbess of the Art Monastery (artmonastery.org) Suiko McCall for a one-hour immersion into her personal process […]
