JUNE 6 – TWO MONKEYS SLEEPING – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

“Tenderness does not choose its own uses. It goes out to everything equally.” Jane Hirshfield We wandered into a corner of the Central Park Zoo, and there, despite the dozens of tourists pointing and tapping the glass, two moneys were squatting on a perch of stone. To...

JUNE 5 – THE SPACES IN-BETWEEN – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

“There’s no need to seek the truth – just put a stop to your opinions. ” Seng-Ts’an Just as life is made up of day and night, and song is made up of music and silence, friendships, because they are of this world, are also made up of times of being in touch and space...

JUNE 4 – HOLDING ON – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

“Throughout all the ten regions of the Universe there is no place where the Source is not.” Hakuin There’s an old story about a young man who’s freezing on the side of the road in Alaska. He’s hitching a ride to Miami. He’s so cold he can barely hold up his handmade...

JUNE 2 – TRAGEDY AND PEACE – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

Too many prints in the same place, because the heart’s a narrow path and our arms its only gate.  At times, so many memories trample my heart that it becomes impossible to know just what I’m feeling and why: my first love laughing in a park whose name I can never...