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Tag Archives: nature
looking up/down
What are you doing down there? What are you doing up there? Come on out of that and into the sunlight! Don’t worry, the water’s fine! No matter where you are, there is always an up and a down.
Posted in Quandaries, The Now
Tagged animals, art, cat, decks, docks, eco-spirituality, faith, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspirituality, nature, perspective, perspectives, poetry, sumi-e, sun, sunlight
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Recitation: Howl
To Howl is not to speak nor is it to sing. To howl is to connect with everything.
Posted in Dao Dogs, zen dog
Tagged animals, art, communication, connection, Dao, eco-spirituality, howl, ink brush meditiation, interspecies spirituality, nature, speak, spirituality, sumi-e, tao
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Dao Dog
Running, neither chased nor chasing, Running along the path.
Posted in zen dog
Tagged animals, art, chased, chasing, Dao, dog, dogs, eco-spirituality, flow, freedom, ink brush meditiation, inter-species spirituality, interfaith, interspirituality, nature, running, sumi-e, tao, Tao character
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Hunting Curiosity?
The act of hunting is an act of seeking thus we can hunt for knowledge but dare we ever kill our curiosity – we will be lost. Curiosity did not kill the cat. for that was worry, confused as care ( you … Continue reading
Posted in Tao Cats
Tagged animals, art, creativity, curiosity killed the cat, eco-spirituality, faith, hunting, ink brush meditiation, inter-species, interfaith, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, love, nature, poetry, seeking, shakespeare, spirituality, sumi-e, tao, Unitarian Universalism, zen
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It’s nap time..
sweet dreams
Posted in The Now
Tagged animals, art, dreams, eco-spirituality, enzo, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspirituality, love, nature, spirituality, squirrel, squirrels, sumi-e, sweet dreams, tao, zen
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wild life walk
I am walking with my firebird friend and from out of the swamp comes a tiger to walk beside us, as we talk our path and learn to walk our walk, from around the corner comes to stalk a lion … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Tao Cats, The Now
Tagged cat, cats, eco-spirituality, faith, fly, freedom, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, lion, nature, orange tabby, spirit cat, story, storytelling, sumi-e, tabby cat, tao, tiger cat, walk the walk, white cat, zen
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Posting pony
beginning anew I post for you. no bridles or bits in this beginning horsebrushship relationships are built on communication and trust, not dominance and submission.
Posted in Poems
Tagged animals, art, Christianity, comunication, healing relationships, horse, ink brush meditiation, inter-species, interfaith, interspirituality, Islam, Judaism, love, nature, pony, positive training, relationships, sumi-e, tao, trust, zen
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Shearing
Never confuse the fleece with what’s truly golden.
Posted in The Now
Tagged animals, art, blessings, Christianity, dog, eco-spirituality, faith, golden fleece, gratitude, Greek mythology, Hinduism, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspirituality, Islam, Judaism, love, nature, poodles, shearing, spirituality, sumi-e, tao, zen
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Fountains of LIfe
The cry of the starlings this morning calls me home, like him I, too, am a refugee. And i too am an invasive species. Yet the fountains of life and joy greet us both, unconcerned of my parentage or species. or … Continue reading
Posted in The Now
Tagged animals, art, bird, blessings, Christianity, eco-spirituality, faith, flow, fountains, fountains of life, gratitude, Hinduism, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspirituality, Islam, Judaism, nature, spirituality, starlings, sumi-e, tao, zen
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House Mice
Grandmother Mouse, Is this your house? some would say it’s a tree – but they do not know you like me. For you too are a house mouse, I see.
Posted in The Now
Tagged animals, art, eco-spirituality, ecology, grandmother, home is where the heart is, house mouse, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspirituality, love, mice, mouse, nature, poetry, spirituality, sumi-e, tao, tree, treehugger, zen
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