Tag: meditation

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Praying for the Enemy

I spent a good part of dinner talking about a person who irritated me, who…

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Maid in 2012

Note to self, dated May 2012. During the two years of “under-employment.” A year ago…

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Night Moves

I lay in bed from Late Night O’Clock until Time for Work O’Thirty. The list of the things I got done included vomit and sex, but not, you know, in the fun way.

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sparrow, with pistachios

(father demo square, west village, ny)

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god’s graffiti

Sometimes, when I’m stuck in a never ending line of traffic. When even though I’m…

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taking pictures of god

There’s a Sufi poet, Hafiz (the best translations are the ones by Daniel Ladinsky).  Hafiz…

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we can drive all night, she said

I’m driving and the music is blasting. Frequently. There are certain bands, certain music that…

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and now, a word about god

It took a long time for me to hear god talking, to know which was my crazy and which was God. Longer still, to have faith & be okay with God’s sense of humor…

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getting there from here

I have a definite writing process. First I put down the basics. Where’m I starting…

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waiting to exhale

I’m on sensory overload.              I spent a week out in the country, up to my…

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up the country

I’m an hour outside the city and light years away from my world. I’m getting…

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I need a new drug

I’m looking for houses again. I have no money and I’m so Grey Gardens tied…

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pretty girls

I see them on the streets & the subways. The pretty girls. The really pretty…

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incremental silence

The voices in my head are chitter chatter chitter chatter never ending — some days…