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Moon of the Iron Age

Posted by on Nov 26, 2023 in Blog | No Comments
Moon of the Iron Age

Moon of the Iron Age Full Moon  November 26, 2023 This time I wish for everything Every good thing To suddenly or slowly befall everyone In the right way, at the seeming wrong time Wherever they are, hearing the call Slow drumming of basic good— Good good good as moonrise On this shared sphere of growing blue […]

Moon of the Present Moment

Posted by on Nov 8, 2023 in Blog | No Comments
Moon of the Present Moment

Moon of the Present Moment New Moon  November 13, 2023 is nothing ever enough? each of the unsaid feelings dissipate into white flowers at the flesh stalk’s head, dangling moments of a little perception around the hour the wind starts up & clouds go vanishing over western glories for all of them, a eulogy about itching […]

Sky of the Present Moment

Posted by on Nov 8, 2023 in Blog | One Comment
Sky of the Present Moment

Sky of the Present Moment New Paintings by Suiko McCall on view November 27 – December 21, 2023 San Francisco Zen Center 300 Page Street Please join Art Monastery Founder & Abbess Suiko Betsy McCall at her solo painting show! Artist Reception Friday, December 15 7-9pm Sky of the Present Moment is a show about presence, […]

Hosting Empowerment: The Book

Posted by on Nov 1, 2023 in Blog | One Comment

In the summer of 2023, at one of the world’s most ecologically responsible printing presses, the three-year European Commission-funded project Hosting Empowerment published a book. I had the honor of illustrating and designing this book, along with my collaborator Boris Goldammer. The idea behind the book is to provide a guide for facilitators who want […]

Song to the Goddess of Awakening

Posted by on Oct 28, 2023 in Blog | No Comments
Song to the Goddess of Awakening

Full Moon Saturday, October 28 In this moment together — alone embodied in this space and light-filled body awaken my appreciation a wish for my life to lived in service of the heartbreak passage by which we aim to put a name on all the world’s beauties as they crest bright and float away. Poem by […]

Candle Flame Moon

Posted by on Oct 13, 2023 in Blog | No Comments
Candle Flame Moon

Candle Flame Moon New Moon  October 14, 2023 Ritual comes unbidden to the blank. There’s a small opening in the fortress a clear spring, an oak, a swing traces of pleasure without aim just this particular body in this time a moment ripe for awakening so, the flickered moon. Or a poppy’s papery petals. Palo Santo […]

Girl Friday Moon

Posted by on Sep 26, 2023 in Blog | No Comments
Girl Friday Moon

Full Moon  September 29, 2023 —for HCB, a singular morning star Cosmic love is plain as day— it is praise for a place to rise from for the straightening braces of family & the mirror spirit that sees you seeing you (Seeing all you don’t see is a kind of seeing too) So it is not […]

Glamouring Moon

Posted by on Sep 12, 2023 in Blog | No Comments
Glamouring Moon

Glamouring Moon New Moon  September 14, 2023 The mark of a rainbow is vanishing After the gold astonishment & showy glamouring effortless appearance Coolly fooling air the mountain mouth blushes into a leaning empty Void gasp in mind stop bands of sky snake into mist At the last cloud goodbye nothing holding life pure energy Poem […]

Fire & Water Moon

Posted by on Aug 15, 2023 in Blog | No Comments
Fire & Water Moon