MAY 4 – FILLING IN THE DAY – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

“I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date! No time to say hello! Good-bye! I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!” The Mad Hatter, from Alice in Wonderland I wake clear and rested, light flooding my room. The day seems endless and free. But making coffee, I notice three...

MAY 2 – LIVE IN YOUR HANDS – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

Live in your hands and your mind will learn to bow like a root.  Several years ago, while doing a poetry reading in New York City, I encountered an angry young man who had just seen a woman mugged. He was so enraged he wrote a poem on the spot. A pensive voice from...

MAY 1 – BURYING AND PLANTING – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

The culmination of one love, one dream, one self, is the anonymous seed of the next.  There is very little difference between burying and planting. For often, we need to put dead things to rest, so that new life can grow. And further, the things put to rest, whether...