love and not love

say your partner picks
at your food
when you are eating together
and it
"drives you crazy"

you could say:
this bothers me

you could say:
this is fun

you could say:
i love you doing something
that drives me crazy

you could ask:
could you stop
and then we then
don't
love
that

love
is something like this:
what you do
is so sweet and charming
to me

sometimes even
more
when you do things
"I" don't like

and is the "I" who
doesn't like
what other people
are up to
the real
me?

the glory of life

the glory
of this
only
now
can we be
fully
yes
and this
now
is
not the last one
and who's
counting

what counts
is
this
love
of whatever
we are loving
and sky cloud song bird bird song
slight wink
high links
low down
to the ground

it's all around
life

you gotta
love
it

no you
don't gotta
you can
love it
now

the choice
is mine
your
s
ours

shall we dance
all our sweet
ness
in this
glory??

yes

and as Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
once wrote:

Glory be to God for dappled things,
For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow,
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced, fold, fallow and plough,
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange,
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim.
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change;
Praise him.

so happiness
of driving
an SUV up a desert
cliff
ala
tv ads
years ago
when i had a tv
dumb
not happiness

the happiness
of following
our breathing
while we listen
to someone
we love
talk
(and who is there not to
love
in this silly
wonderful
and amazing world)

the happiness
of looking at the sky
the birds
the Earth

hey,
happy Earth Day

great little article
by Richard Dale
today
in the Sonoma Index Trib

and you
could,
without too much trouble
find some
Earth oriented things
here and there
on this site

and hey,
this is just a computer

you are alive
i am alive

let'
s
get outside
and walk
slowly
and delightfully
in this glorious
day
of
our lives


yes

yes, to now, for now, for love

now is nice
luckily

since it's where
we can
be
in connection
to our experience
as it is
(we are)
happening

and why would we
want to do that?
it feels
(we feel)
great
and
it isn't
about hedonism
as much
as the sense
of coming home
to what is deepest
and truest
and
in a way
easiest
about ourselves

easy

ease

the Feldenkrais
and
anat Baniel approaches
can help
with our ease,
too

this whole
offering
is about:
undoing
tightness
of body/ brain
or emotion/habit
or mind/ soul

undo
come to a more ease full
state

more could be said
and the easy experience of
now
without the words
on top
of the experience
that says
it
(you, me, us)
all

and
then
there is love:
which is our truest
nature
or
what flows out
when
we wake up
or
is the ocean
in
which we swim
or the
current
pulling us to
god and or each other
and or
our truest
deepest
selves

that sounds
good,
too,
doesn't it?

Why do we Love?

why do we love???
??
??

Because it's fun

because it's who we are

because we've gotten a bit
of wisdom
and have discovered
that anything else
hurts

because
it keeps us alive
and vital
and learning something new
from others and ourselves
and
the Earth

be cause

be calm

be now

if you can

otherwise
love

wherever
you are

and that
will bring
you back

home