Posts in Poetry
What Is the Source of Your Inspiration?

I love this question. It makes me want to get really close to the inner layers of this beautiful diamond of inquiry and burrow myself deeply into the answer. And ultimately there is only one true response for me. As soon as this question is posed, I begin to feel sensations ignite throughout my body, my hair stands on end and then radiates with latent energy that is awakened as if suddenly called to attention. I feel warmth, I feel excitement, and almost a touch of shyness at the same time as if spirit is flirting with me. I feel as if I am on the cusp between life and death and that truth is just about to pour out across my tongue and into the world…

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Are Your Tears Salty or Sweet?

Three days ago: I was in the shower this morning and started to think of all the people I have met since coming to New York City. I felt a rumble in my deep inner realm and then observed as a rush of sweetness began to stream out of the corners of my eyes. My heart pulsed with light as an immense source of pure gratitude began to express a weeping that took me to my knees. Wow. I am still in awe as I type this, cozy in my robe, feeling the aftershocks of such a beautiful human and heartfelt experience. All I can say right now is thank you…

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Where Are You?

In my heart for sure…thinking about everyone on this planet and beyond that I love so much that it hurts so good…You know what I mean? That love that can stretch beyond time and space, even past, present, and future. The love that tastes like the sweetest of honey or a bitter medicine that heals the deepest layers of self. The love that sparkles in the light, reflecting every facet of radiance and rainbows of glitter…


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What Does It Feel Like to Take a Running Leap?

I had a dream recently like no other. I could see the horizon in front of me as a clean line of earth and sky. From deep within, I started to run at full speed towards this edge and just kept running as the edge became a cliff where the horizon quickly became sky into the ocean. All I could see was blue in all directions as I was suspended in a slow-motion mid-air flight and awakened…


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Can You Change Your Mind?

After much tireless curiosity around this subject and meticulously investigating my true motivations and relationship to change, I can honestly say yes. And...it truly is the hardest, most arduous, and disciplined notion I believe a human can undergo. Changing a mind is not just making a new decision, it is diving deep into the crux of the origin of being…

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Destiny?

I was in the courtroom…The judge looked at me, sentenced to death, could it really be? I looked for familiar eyes, those who I truly love, people who knew my heart, and what I’ve dreamed of. One soul found me then and we both shook our heads. This was unexpected…that I would soon be dead. I had a sense of imminent death, even before this moment in time. Although I thought it was a metaphor, not a punishment for crime…

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Is That You?

Today I became fully present to the full circular nature of being that occurs in the reflection of others. I was reminded of “myself” and who I had been 18 years ago through a real-time reunion of a dear friend and mentor who I hadn’t seen in nearly two decades…

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Relationship?

Each of us is an embodiment of relationship; relationship with God, ourselves, family, lovers, community, our world, and even the stars above. Without one another, we would be sovereign heartbeats looking for love aimlessly in order to know ourselves. We need each other. There is no actual alone, there is no true independence. And this Taurean full moon will remind us of this truth, as the veil continues to thin while the sun’s rays of Scorpio are cast across the night sky.

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Where Do You Stand?

This is an epic question in a moment of fierce polarization, within a country that refers to itself as “United”. I wonder for how long have we actually been divided in our thinking, preferences, priorities, and intentions as a nation? How long have we been living under a false pretense that everything is “fine”? And who is “we” anyway? Can we group together 331M culturally independent people and assume we are truly all working towards the same future? Would you define our culture as cohesive? The clock is ticking until secession begins.

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Why Proactive Mental Health?

Our mental health is at risk.

We are living through a societal dissolve and there within invites an epic scene of chaos. Perspective is King. How will we navigate these waters? Some will not, others will cling to a “side” for dear life (or to viciously fight for or against as a way to justify violence), and few will go deep within to resource from that which is greater for understanding, clarity, perspective, courage, and faith. Faith is cultivated from experience beyond belief. What do you currently believe?

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What Is Extraordinary About 2020?

“I feel within me a consuming fire of heavenly love

Which has burned up in my soul everything that was contrary to itself

And transformed me inwardly into its own nature.”

-William Law


What isn’t extraordinary about 2020 could be a better question. We have officially “left the building” as a society, or perhaps have sailed into the great unknown of uncharted territories. Either way, the structures of old, past ways of being, our false sense of security, and the times of “uniting” within our country are behind us. We are in a new room. And it is a revolution in the making.

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Are Those Stars in Your Lapis Lazuli?

Have you ever stared into a stone and asked it to share the mysteries of its life? Or tried to imagine the journey it has lived, mined from the center of the earth to now sitting on your desk staring back at you? It’s not that I am bored and have nothing to do, trust me, it’s just that there is something intrinsically profound about the weighted cosmic majesty I experience when meditating with my Lapis Lazuli.

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