-
Archives
- March 2021
- January 2021
- June 2020
- April 2020
- February 2020
- July 2019
- May 2019
- March 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- October 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
-
Meta
Tag Archives: Journal
The Birth of Peter
A year has passed already since your birth, Peter Fenix, and it has felt all along as if we’d had you forever. You have a steadfast sureness, a resolute confidence, that makes everything you do seem just right; and you’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Journal
Tagged amwriting, birth, birthstory, connection, dad, family, Journal, life, love, Memoir, Om, one love, parenting, rebirth, vulnerability, writing
Leave a comment
One Drop?
I’m told that there are two rooms to choose from. If I want I can leave. It’s up to me. I’m already sitting in the big white room with all these people that I don’t identify with, yet who I … Continue reading
Posted in Dream, Journal, Prose
Tagged amwriting, balance, beauty, community, Creative Writing, destiny, Dream, Dreams, identity, Journal, life, Meditation, paradox, Perception, poem, politics, Prose, race, self, singularity, truth, vulnerability, writing
Leave a comment
I don’t know
What is the most powerful affirmation? “I don’t know.” This agnosticism may require the most faith, the most courage. It is a scary thing to accept that you don’t know, and yet in accepting this, fear often melts away. You … Continue reading
Posted in Journal
Tagged absolute, amwriting, anatta, Buddhism, connection, Creative Writing, emptiness, enlightenment, equanimity, freedom, impermenance, Journal, life, Meditation, nonduality, Om, one love, paradox, Perception, Prose, relativity, Shamanism, singularity, surrender, truth, vulnerability, writing
1 Comment
Shoefalls
One, two, they dropped both shoes right down onto me. Three, four, what there’s more! How many can there be? All my life, now I live in fright; The risk will never end. I know I’m right, yet still this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged amwriting, art, balance, Buddhism, Creative Writing, enlightenment, equanimity, freedom, Journal, life, Meditation, paradox, Perception, phoenix, poem, Poetry, positivity, reincarnation, relativity, revolution, self control, Song, spoken word, Spokenword, travel, truth, vulnerability, word play, writing
Leave a comment
Love in the Time of Parenting
We’re in it together through the stormy weather, and you know what else is true? It couldn’t be better! We’ll come to treasure these times we’re going through. Bonds of struggle and strife tend to last for life, and may … Continue reading
Surrender (#tbt)
I asked Nina Simone what it means to be free. “Words cannot do justice to the experience of freedom,” she said. She paused a moment, a hushed, contemplative silence, before saying “no fear… That’s freedom. That’s not all of it, … Continue reading
Posted in Prose
Tagged #maybookprompts, amwriting, Buddhism, connection, Creative Writing, enlightenment, equanimity, freedom, Freewill, Journal, life, love, Meditation, one love, phoenix, politics, Prose, revolution, self control, surrender, tbt, throwback thursday, truth, vulnerability, writing
Leave a comment
Avoidance
To sit in a void, a hard vacuum, would burst my eyes and boil my blood, and yet be so desirable. I could struggle with the contradiction, but prefer to just accept it like the warm embrace of winter. If … Continue reading
Posted in Prose
Tagged absolute, amwriting, birth, Buddhism, Creative Writing, emptiness, enlightenment, equanimity, float, floating, Journal, life, Meditation, Om, Perception, Prose, sensory deprivation, transcendence, Transcendentalism, writing
Leave a comment
Onomatopoeia (#tbt)
What constitutes pure silence? If a tree falls in the woods… If we build a sound detector with an auditory acuity far more sensitive than our own, and it tells us there is noise we cannot hear, is our silence … Continue reading
Posted in Prose
Tagged #maybookprompts, amwriting, beginner's mind, Buddhism, Creative Writing, enlightenment, equanimity, float, floating, Journal, life, martial arts, Meditation, Memoir, nature, Om, Perception, Prose, sensory deprivation, shoshin, tae kwon do, tbt, throwback thursday, transcendence, Transcendentalism, truth, writing
Leave a comment
Eye of the Storm (#tbt)
How many hurricanes are your fault? Remember when you were on vacation in Jamaica in October of 2012? On the 22nd you were at the beach. You let a silent-but-deadly fart slip out, much to the dismay of the British … Continue reading
Posted in Prose
Tagged #maybookprompts, amwriting, Buddhism, connection, Journal, karma, life, Meditation, Memoir, Perception, Prose, singularity, tbt, throwback thursday, truth, writing
2 Comments
Mofrez's 