Just like that - every time, when you think you could not go any further, deeper, closer, you do - until you can't. Also, advice on lifting things, since life often throws things on your way and you need to move them around.  Do not attempt to lift by bending forward. Bend your hips and … Continue reading Mary Oliver – from the Thirst

Rant: Today is the one year anniversary of my  9.14.17 lil website http://www.peyman.live Thanks for the clicks and clacks. Today is also the day I have breathed the air  of this planet for 10,154 days in a row. Also, today I learned babies don't drink water, at least for 6 moths, only milk, and sometimes … Continue reading Bukowski – Lost

   Yes, just like that,       one day          you'll fall toward me, and I'll fall      toward you. just like the                 apple, and the                   earth. & I'll tell you this, where we … Continue reading When You Fall

Ellen Bass The World Has Need of You everything here seems to need us… —Rilke I can hardly imagine it as I walk to the lighthouse, feeling the ancient prayer of my arms swinging in counterpoint to my feet. Here I am, suspended between the sidewalk and twilight, the sky dimming so fast it seems … Continue reading Ellen Bass – The World Has Need of You

So much yes here for me! I am not suggesting anything here - but there's stoicism here, and zen - and I have learned so much there, in the darkest hours of my being I hope to remember these teaching! I never want to shy away from grief and my loneliness, but my sweet Mary is also … Continue reading Mary Oliver – The Poet with His Face in His Hands

Matthew Dickman Grief When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla you must count yourself lucky. You must offer her what’s left of your dinner, the book you were trying to finish you must put aside, and make her a place to sit at the foot of your bed, her eyes moving from the … Continue reading Matthew Dickman – Grief

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don't mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in heaven they don't sing all the time The world is a … Continue reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti – [The world is a beautiful place]

Poem: Pablo Neruda Ode To Clothes Every morning you wait, clothes, over a chair, to fill yourself with my vanity, my love, my hope, my body. Barely risen from sleep, I relinquish the water, enter your sleeves, my legs look for the hollows of your legs, and so embraced by your indefatigable faithfulness I rise, … Continue reading Pablo Neruda Ode – To Clothes 

Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody! Who are you?  I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To … Continue reading Emily Dickinson – I’m Nobody! Who are you? 

Rant: The road is long long long! There are times that I wake frightened, looking at the last weak string holding me connected to this world. I look at this string from the edge of my bed, which could feel like edge of the known universe to me, a millions of miles away from the surface, (and … Continue reading Robert Pinsky – Samurai Song