Morning at La Dolce Via
The immense wealth you have to give away–
Your beauty
Your contemplation
Your healing–
You’ve already started
With
Me
Today
The immense wealth you have to give away–
Your beauty
Your contemplation
Your healing–
You’ve already started
With
Me
Today
You write out my poems, filling monastery walls,
and I crowd these door-screens here with yours.
Old friend, we never know where it is we’ll meet–
we two duckweed leaves adrift on such vast seas.
Po Chü-i
trans. D. Hinton
Our Writing to Wake Up class is meeting next Thursday 19 April to hold our weekly session at the Saint Louis Bread Company at 4561 Forest Park Avenue in the Central West End. We go from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For any friends and former students who fondly remember Natalie Goldberg’s Writing down the Bones and who kept an old-fashioned notebook, feel free to join us for being, breathing, sharing, writing, and smiling.
Namaste forever, Mark
For our fifth Introduction to Poets discussion, Becca Gorley will share with us her appreciation of Adrienne Rich.
We will meet on Wednesday 18 April at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Katy Didden– 3538 A Humphrey Street, St Louis, MO 63118, near Pho Grand just off South Grand.
My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyedI have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.
On Adrienne Rich, see this and this.
Let me know if you will be able to join us and bring a friend if you want!
Mark
Laura Aranda, good luck in the Boston Marathon! We will miss you.