“Pizza
Lemon bars
A purring cat
Enough”

“Billions of choices
A lifetime of edges navigated
I choose kindness”

“Replenish Being
walking, sitting, sharing, rest,
Birdsong—a reward!”

“Stumbling along
I somehow find my way toward peace
Blundering blindly
The future always unknown
Trusting the path, I walk on.”

“Living death hiding light
Why forge from yesteryear
Now more misery

Life, death, shading light
Why not forge from yesteryear
Even happiness”

“Together in the boxes
Zoom brings us together
Until we are muted forever.”

“The Great Matter

When i was 7, running blindly, as children do
I ran into a fixed metal object. It was about my height, with a pointy spike aimed at my forehead.
Ducking at the last second, I missed pithing by a nanometer.

Since then I’ve thought about death at least once a day,
how easily it can arise.

I’m 75 now,
still hammering at this wall between life and death,
like the wall between waking life and dreaming.
So frustrating!”