Artemisia

Two poems from 1976. Inspired by and dedicated to the Fraser Canyon and the spirit that moves throughout this region where I live.

On 'twirling sunwise' and a magical Nepalese widdershins bear. A hop farm worker looks at etymology.

Looking back through a voyage of thirty-nine years. The journey hasn’t changed me much and now I have a ship’s cat.

A coyote teaches me how to disappear and how to tune in to NOW.

On believing lies, disbelieving truths, punk music diagnostics, cat wisdom and Sugarless Gum.

Beethoven in a waterfall. The strength of gentleness, the wisdom of disobedience, a whiff of vindaloo and the intrepid walking firs.

A look at the yin and yang of good and evil in the human experience. Probable medical causes and possible spiritual cures.

On navigating the two-lane highway between dreams and reality.

On the science of astrology and its relevance today. Updated with my new understanding of autism.

The question of why multitudes submit to doomed systems designed to benefit few, has yet to be conclusively answered.

Overcoming meditation hesitancy in the 21st Century.

Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (2)

I have made a “big medicine,” sixty years in the making. Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (3)

Texas Cherokee medicine in the 21st Century. Dignifying childhood's early quenching. Letter to my sisters by Michael Hawes.

Riding into the Year of the Tiger. Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (4)

Learning to look out the windows of my own lighthouse. Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (5)

Deer hunting in the the headlights of unheeded intuition.

Pondering Restorative Justice.