before turning the light off and moving into the week -
i decide to throw some recounts of the weekend
into tribe-cyber space

what are the lessons learned?

~ keep your eyes and ears wide open, cuz the most profound teachers
sometimes present right before you, if only you're open to their teachings

~ knowing how to connect with family can be a fun challenge and an acquired skill

~ will my 87 year young grandma ever cease to amaze me as she parents
our 18 year young rebel ... read more

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
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Even after all this time,
the Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.

~ Hafiz