The Story of You (for the thinking athiest) | Continue reading
There are signs if you look for them Species of creatures dying out A rising sea A smaller arctic A feeling dread on the population People moving on in fear and desperation And the answer- It isn’t ‘better’ politics The answer is in your hearts In your spirits We need silence We … | Continue reading
Fresh sunlight tickles The east windows at daybreak - Good morning, everyone! James Lee Jobe | Continue reading
Break the Mirror In the morning After taking cold shower —-what a mistake—- I look at the mirror. There, a funny guy, Grey hair, white beard, wrinkled skin, —-what a pity—- Poor, dirty, old man, He is not me, absolutely not. Land and life Fishing in the ocean Sleeping in the dese … | Continue reading
These houses of flesh and bone The breath of life moves through a deathless valley Lao Tzu We live in these houses of flesh and bone Walled in by the soul of our own existence Roofed by that love which we can create With our own hearts, our own experience In time, we leave these … | Continue reading
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“In life as well as in art, Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.” Alan Watts | Continue reading
remember that donald trump is not the king of ameriKKKa remember that scars from a bullwhip last more than a lifetime, centuries even remember that equality does not yet exist in the land of the free and the home of the brave remember that donovan records still deserve to be play … | Continue reading
The winter rains have come again Bringing life to the earth Spring will return with great rebirth Until then let us smuggle our own light To meet this darkness What is darkness anyway Dance through the raindrops The sun will return The wheel of the year will turn James Lee Jobe | Continue reading
A full moon on a winter night The eyes of the pine forest Blink in the sleep shadows The carpet of pine needles Is silent beneath the coyote’s paws See how her breath hangs In a perfect fog O silent midnight You are a diamond James Lee Jobe | Continue reading
Joshua Tree National Park | Continue reading
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The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. Atiśa Dīpa kara Śrījñāna | Continue reading
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How different might life be If we had to carry with us everywhere The coffin or urn That would one day hold our remains I think that I would like my ashes To be tossed into a strong wind James Lee Jobe | Continue reading
It rained at spring equinox And a beautiful quiet filled the house In the dark just before sunrise There was only the sound of the rain And my wife yelling For more toilet paper James Lee Jobe | Continue reading
Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement. Shunryu Suzuki | Continue reading
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I will die one day as we all must Don’t weep too much for me Life is everything and nothing All at the same time A life is but a moment Just the blink of an eye Don’t weep too much for me I lived and loved I gained and lost I will die one day as we all must Don’t weep too much fo … | Continue reading
Perhaps we evolved this way So that we could bury the dogs and cats So that someone would be there To shoot the horse that would only suffer Life and death Leave a certain amount of cleaning up That must be done And so we have minds that can reason We have hands that can grasp a … | Continue reading
My bird is yelling at the dogs Who are barking at a cat Sunrise again James Lee Jobe | Continue reading
Speak not because it is safe, but because it is right. Edward Snowden | Continue reading
Those who are ill, may they be well. Those are afraid, may they be well. Those who are alone, may they be well. Those without a home, may they be well. James Lee Jobe | Continue reading
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. Dōgen Zenji | Continue reading
When bankers dine together, they discuss art. When artists dine together, they discuss money. Oscar Wilde | Continue reading
Gary Snyder - Things To Do Around A Lookout | Continue reading
This is how the sunshine tastes. Like birth, like life. And this is how It tastes to be a human in sunlight. Even now, in the darkness, the flavor Is on my lips, on my tongue. James Lee Jobe | Continue reading
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. Dōgen | Continue reading
I don’t know who did this still life photo. | Continue reading
This valley So long, flat, and wide Is graced by the Sacramento River Cold and quick Air that is like your first breath Air that holds your most private moments The earth here is as rich a Vanderbilt Or a Kennedy The crops are diamonds in the rough And the air and the soil grace … | Continue reading
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There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath | Continue reading
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