Tea and Breath
Thinking about the human condition -- writing, tea, big sky mind and all things poetic
NaPoWriMo/ National Poetry Month/ & just a poem ~
Today's the 6th day of one of my favorite months -- National Poetry Month. Which is also National Poetry WRITING Month, NaPoWriMo. AND...my birthday month! How filled w/ great stuff can a month get? The NaPoWriMo prompt for today is about the line -- about changing it...
read moreepeolatry revisited ~ the poem
Here's today's NaPoWriMo post (still playing catch-up!): Epeolatry[1] ~ I can taste it: the airy mouthfeel of eh the whisper plosive of pē how the round liquidity of ol fills the back of my throat like thick honey and then the crisp wafer of trēē breaks between the...
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Epeolatry, or the love of words that begets (begat?) poetry ~
I see the word epeolatry and I feel obliged to confess: I’m a total word nerd. I was that kid you hated in 4th grade, who begged for spelling words, and won the spelling bee, and had her nose in a book so often that even my grandmother – an old teacher – yelled at me:...
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and so it begins (National Poetry Month, that is) ~
So much poetry! So little time! I have a couple of links for you to start off National Poetry Month, and an assignment (😏). First, here's a short post I did recently for the wonderful literary journal Nimrod. It looks at the differences between poets & prose...
read moreMr. Rogers, fire, and other Buddhist thoughts ~
I want to be more like Mr. Rogers. I want to be able to move beyond anger, my personal Buddhist mind poison. Known as kleshas to learned practitioners (and mind poisons to the rest of us), anger is what I’m both best at (wrathful compassion, addressed here & here,...
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what I’m learning about happiness from gardening ~
As I've mentioned previously, I'm working on being happier this year. Not that I wasn't pretty happy last year. I just want it to be more...conscious this year, I guess. More intentional, since last year's was in large part the result of non-repeatable actions. Moving...
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