One of the important books in my life is Carl Rogers’ - On Becoming A Person. It took me a lot of time, reflection, development and as always, mother luck to get to where I am now - just happy to be here, laugh, hold my friends dear and experience the world without desire, hunger, greed, stuff.
View the video version on YouTube.
Along that road, I’ve studied a lot. Much Buddhism and Asian thought and religion. I will share some of my “Tao” with readers this month. So stay tuned. A lesson a day.
This video poem and the poem below - I tapped out today. In the spirit of automatic poetry. Maybe it will have a message for you, or maybe not. But it IS.
The earth feeds me from her empty bowl.
washing old jam jars
listening to boys play outside
peeling potatoes, licking my fingers
lying in the mountain stream
listening to the water move over me,
pulling bananas from the stalk
remembering what I didn't remember
petting my dog and thinking
of the other one that went away
as
the earth feeds me from her empty bowl.
On Becoming