Diary of Medicine Flower

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Thursday, May 4, 2006

Into the Sunlight

(revisited) Lifting the shield, the heavy shield that brings us daily to burdens and sorrows, we might forget that the meaning of life is unclear, even to the wisest. While squirrels harbor nuts and lemurs perch high over our past, we worry about things non-essential to daily breath and contact.... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Great Things

I have always been exposed to great things - great books, music, performances and the arts. They have unfolded about me like the leaves of the agave or the wings of the monarch. It is probably a just thing that I should lose the sight of one eye and scarcely feel the earth beneath my feet. Just in... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Nature's Tools and Mine

I look over the land and see the hills in the mist, the river churning as it always has through the chasm and over the falls, and I know that nature's tools are not the same as mine. I have hands to fashion artifacts to feed me, clothe me and to protect my own. But lately I've been given over to... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Time's Face on the Waters

I stand at the edge of the pond and watch the ripples sing their song to the summer sky. The clouds are more beautiful and the ducks that fly more graceful. Trees mirror their arching boughs over the big puddle and seam to come alive. Then, I look into the pond and see my face as it glows—not like a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Suffering the Weather

When deep in summer's heat, we complain about the sweat and heavy air quite forgetting in winter's depths we complained about the chill and thinning air. Are we hard to please or just too fussy? It is a difficult matter to face daily, our disatisfaction with the environment and the weather. But, if... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Cherokee Words

Sometimes the dizziness of life cuffs us and makes us bread foul thoughts and spew bad words. The Cherokee say that words are not to be used lightly because they last forever. Even if in anger's heat you spray the glade with meaningless palaver, that palaver remains indelible and will haunt the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 10, 2005

The Face of our Fathers

The pond is frozen and the family gathers to drink to the coming of spring, with our eyes raised to the setting sun and the points of light far on the horizon. I sigh to think of the many things I've done to hurt freeze this pond, to help thicken the ice during the dull wintry dawn and the cold... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 18, 2005

Humble Prayers

It is a fine thing to do daily before the sun comes up and the crowds pour across the mental horizon. Done once and solid, it anchors the day to bountiful purpose, focusing on the truth of matters and the importance of any act or thought. Forgotten and the world spins about in want of direction,... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 11, 2005

Sweet Winter Wind

Sweet winter wind in my face, blinding me with snow and chilling me to my bone, I thank the creator that the depths of this day reminds me of my frailties. The warrior must challenge his mental picture of himself. This is hard to do, as we are too much for ourselves, overcome with the brilliance of... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

The Passage of the Midnight Soul

So, the most depressing day of the year has passed me by and I am still here. It is the time to look in the reflecting ice to see the state of myself, to search deeply into my money bag to find the gold to pay the tax man, and to look around the empty room and notice that I am alone with my little... Sign in to see full entry.

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