Gaia's Way

Mindfulness brings an awareness of the beauty of the Spring-Equinox-moment we are in. It is in the present moment that we encounter Gaia – the Divine Feminine – as the path alongside the Watercourse Way, and Creation's foundational principles of compassion and unconditionalness.

For a bird, there is no way not to be in the sky. But until you see this, you imagine you could have flown differently and better. The repetition of our good intentions is never in a straight line. We just come back and come back again, the way the eagle turns on its wing, flapping toward home. – after Diane Musho Hamilton, The Zen of You and Me (Shambhala, Boulder, CO. 2017).

My mind? A passage of wind in the vast sky. Not more, not less. – after Ryōkan

Among others joining me in the birthday circle are the Roman poet Ovid, (born Publius Ovidius Naso in what is now Sulmo, Italy in 43 B.C.); and Henrik Ibsen in Skien, Norway, 1828).