Facets of a Diamond – Blog

A forest of trees
dancing as conducted
by the wind,
Heaven’s Breath.

Was tree worship
so primitive?
Or Enlightened?

Stoicism:
the teaching of the Greek philosopher, Zeno
from his stoa, his porch.

From my porch,
I learn from the tree:
stoic throughout the year.

If I
could fly,
it would be
to that tree.

My heart doesn’t pulse
– it is Pulsed.

Go beyond the physiology
– go to the Beyond:
we don’t breathe
– we are Breathed.

A young woman asked me to help her realize her Special Gift which she, with utmost modesty, confessed was “to help people remember the Divine.”

Well, I do believe that you have helped me. Especially when I remember your Innocence, your Sincerity – and your Dedication.

And you do cause me to wonder whether this is everyone’s

Let’s consider the origin of our word tree. It comes from the root DERU, which meant “to be firm, solid, steadfast.”

From this root are also derived trust, truth, shelter, and endure; also durum, the wheat for pasta, because it is hard, obdurate. And from duramen, the hard growth of a vine, comes dura mater, “the

“I found my mother still alive but in a most deplorable state; the disease was consumption, and about seven weeks ago, after much pain and suffering, she died. She was such a kind, loving mother to me, and my best friend. Ah, who was happier than I when I could still utter the sweet name,

“The sole foundation of art is this power of losing one's separatedness, of feeling oneself at the same time a whole and yet a part of something far greater.” -- Georg Groddeck