firefly

How do you capture that excitement as the wind picks up and you know a storm is rolling in? Endless anticipation in infinite electricity. Fringes rising on static. Senses heightened by feelings. I want to live as the lightning bugs...

a question 1/17/20

The older man told me “Stop asking such pointless questions and ask what you really mean. In Zen Buddhism we mediate until we reach the centers of ourselves, the very bottom, at which point we realize we are a part of everything. So for the next question you ask, ask...

the constant question

For the past 5 years I have had the event “Are you happy?” in my phone’s calendar. Every Sunday I am prompted with this question. Yet I don’t think I have ever actually answered it. I look at it and go “Hmmmm. Am I?” without any further thought. It is funny because I...