A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. 

Carlos Castaneda

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake

A DIVINE INVITATION:

You have been invited to meet The Friend

no one can resist a Divine Invitation

that narrows down all our choices to just two:

We may come to God dressed for dancing

or

Be carried on a stretcher to God’s ward

Hafiz

Each quest or journey leaving an imprint, begins with a question...

his twin brother Xolotl honorings

Words to live, work, and play by daily as the sun rises over Crater Lake and Wizard Island:

"Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching" - Aurora Greenway

Happy New (Lunar) Year's Eve !

  To wandering and falling

through gravity's lessons

as often as you do...

near such time and space

 of flying like a serpent

 with wings

 across another field

 of fresh powder--awaiting a

 blue Sea's limitless tide.

still...

Learning with more frequency that being naive is meaningless,

 if you are lucky with the green people and perfectly burnt toast.
 j.a. knolls

The Answer to the previous spout out of me : executives and politicians too often understand so little, about this poem written by a monk, honoring Kuan Yin's grace and wisdom.

75 THE WRONG WAY UP It’s not a good idea to climb a mountain with a tiger, You’re wobbly, you’re nervous, every move you make is tense Suddenly something you remember could help you now – And if you do what you learnt then you won’t fall foul.

Offered with a sense to ask a few when decision makers are nervous as a result of too many misconceptions scattered, who really bears the burden ?

or

"Snow has been falling like crazy the last couple of days and the weather forecast is currently calling for 14-25 inches of fresh powder to fall tonight."  Cheers 1 - and smile.

Wake up America and take care of your indigenous peoples NOW !

Because many of our ancestors and forefathers' past actions were inexcusable, it does not mean that such atrocities should continue being allowed for by modern society's men and women; or at least, not by those of us who are still capable of speaking and acting from our hearts.

  So again, I ask that you WAKE UP and help our indigenous peoples, who once had such a great pride and nobility in their way of life.

 Efforts to help them regain a better quality of living at any cost is not too much to ask, which in reality is nothing a few executives and/or politicians could not do from their own pockets, were they to choose to be philanthropists with a relationship to reality.

Is the word "philanthropy" somehow never defined for its students by Ivy League college professors...?  Based on my observations, it seems that our so-called "leaders" commonly have shown all of us how to be philanderers instead.

Today, marks the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Lurther King, Jr. and I feel the following amplifies the value of his life, as eloquently stated from that noble bard of yesterday , James Russell Lowell,

Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth and falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
Off'ring each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong:
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above his own.

Artists and musicians, found here in Oregon, are some of the most inspiring you'll find for their abilities to create reflections of that which flows on...

The frontside of a hoodoo is pictured below, which does not light a candle that may shine on the backside, like the sunshine does there after 10 am...as an all-time season unfolds here, near the Cascade Mtns' heart point, with epic amounts of early snowfall.

today
 is my wife's birthday
and she is an angel
from the moon...
like a wonderful dream

in my eyes,
 a true friend
 and teacher.

her formosa
 islander's name

 symbols the idea of :
'for pure, inner strength'

and she reflects
 this to me,
 which is a gift, indeed !

when the dreams

 you have dreamed 

start dreaming you,

 then there is only

 one course of action

 left to do....

Perhaps, we are here to learn life's rhythm is best experienced when your own soul, mind, and body interact as one-stream to fish from...?

Vladimir Franz

with a gentle smile

a real sense of happiness exists

 in that which never arrives

 or needs to split.

 perhaps, instead it simply is...

with a gentle smile as we await

 the initiation into a greater sea

of our mitochondria's delivery. 

where such is to be experienced

 and allowed outwardly at will...

with a gentle smile for all

 becoming able to see.

j.a. knolls