September 2021

We're all another year
closer to our comeuppances -
the carpenters the cat the gulls
the bees the ghosts and me -
riding with time through the carousel seasons
as long as the wheel turns us.
 - Peter Trower
8:00 AM Sept 30th

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
 - Tom Stoppard
5:00 PM Sept 29th

Consumed with anger,
The world is an ugly place.
Bathed in happiness,
The world is a wonderful place.
But, aha! the same world.
 - Taitetsu Unno
12:00 PM Sept 28th

They say
do not try to unlock this door
without a teacher.

Who locked the door?
- John Ezra Fowler 
4:30 PM Sept 27th

Moon, plum blossoms,
this, that,
and the day goes.
 - Kobayashi Issa
8:30 AM Sept 24th

Stop and feel where you are.
 - Adyashanti
12:00 PM Sept 23rd

The church says: The body is a sin.
Science says: The body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The body says: I am a fiesta.
 - Eduardo Galeano
8:30 AM Sept 22nd

The unspoiled colors of a late summer night,
The wind howling through the lofty pines
The feel of the autumn approaching;
The swaying bamboos keep resonating,
And shedding tears of dew at dawn
 - Dogen

12:00 PM Sept 21st

We are here and it is now.
Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
 - H. L. Mencken

1:00 PM Sept 20th

Deep in the mountains, at a Zen temple, there was a sudden rustling sound outside.
Zen master Jingqing said, "What is that?"
Another monk told him, "It's the sound of a snake eating a toad."
Jingqing said, "Once you acknowledge suffering there is no end to suffering."
8:00 AM Sept 15th

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once. Add a second light and you get a second darkness, it's only fair.
 - Richard Siken
8:00 AM Sept 12th

Here dies another day
During which I have had eyes, ears, hands
And the great world round me;
And with tomorrow begins another.
Why am I allowed two?
- G. K. Chesterton
5:30 PM Sept 8th

When we go to a medicine person or a healer, he or she might ask questions like,
"When did you stop singing?"
"When did you stop dancing?"
"When did you stop being enchanted by stories?"
"When did you begin finding discomfort in the sweet territory of silence?"
 - Angeles Arrien
8:00 AM Sept 7th

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.
 - Pema Chödrön
12:00 PM Sept 5th

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
 - John Muir
8:30 AM Sept 3rd

Through no fault of our own we have become, by the grace of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We have not asked for that role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
 - Stephen Jay Gould
12:00 PM Sept 2nd