Posts Tagged "ruth gendler"
Harmony
Reading at Anara Practice 01/04/2012 Harmony doesn’t seem extraordinary until you have known him for a while. He knows how to be gentle, and such gentleness is surprisingly powerful. The silence around him is lyrical. If I sit in his kitchen in the late afternoon and drink ginger tea, by the time I am ready to go home the contradictions inside my head are no longer shouting at me and trying...
Read MoreChange
Readings from Koloa practices week of 6/20 – 6/25 Change wears my sister’s moccasins. He stays up late and wakes up early. He likes to come up quietly and kiss me on the back of the neck when I am at my drawing table. He wants to amuse people, and it hurts him when they yell at him. Change is very musical. but sometimes you must listen for a long time before you hear the pattern in...
Read MoreIntuition
Reading at Anara Practice 10/17/2011 I invited Intuition to stay in my house when my roommates went North. I warned her that I am territorial and I keep the herb jars in alphabetical order. Intuition confessed that she has a “spotty employment record.” She was fired from her last job for daydreaming. When Intuition moved in, she washed all the windows, cleaned out the fireplace,...
Read MoreWisdom
Reading at Anara practice 2/01/2011 Wisdom wears an indigo jacket. She takes long walks in the purple hills at twilight pausing to meditate at an old temple near the crossroads. She was sick as a young child so she learned to be alone with herself at an early age Wisdom has a quiet mind. She likes to think about the edges where things spill into each other and become their opposites. She knows...
Read MoreForgiveness
Reading at Koloa and Anara practices Forgiveness is a strong woman, tender and earthy and direct. Since her children have left home, she has embarked on an extended walking tour, visiting ruins and old monuments, bathing in rivers and hot springs, traveling through the small towns and large pulsing cities, tracing the current of sorrow under the stories she hears. Sometimes the city authorities...
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