Small Stones February 3 - 5 2013
Small Stone 5.2.13
The jokes come thick and fast
Did he pay and display?
He must owe a king’s ransom
in unpaid parking charges.
Yet, underpinning the levity,
is a thread of awe seldom
offered to bones in our
modern day. It is awareness
of history uncovered, a path
through myth, rumour and
theatre to acknowledge that
this king, unearthed, was once
a living, breathing man. His bones
make our past seem real.
Small Stone 4.2.13
Pears are in season;
green on the turn to
yellow, and soft, bursting
sharp acid against teeth before
sweetness grazes the tongue.
The fruit’s rough granules settle
on the hills and valleys of the
molars, charting the territory,
while each bite produces
tiny dull crumps which echo
in the bones of the jaw.
Small Stone 3.2.13
The only constant is change. Someone said that, and I can’t remember who. I could google it, but let’s leave it as a universal constant, said by everyone at some time or another. Change has its pros and its cons, but there is one thing which can be done to shore up the heart and the stomach and the soul against its more ravaging effects. You can carry the unchangeables, the intangibles, within you. You can work on developing a faith which says that, wherever your physical self may be, your spiritual Self will find good things to nurture it, because you will seek those things out, you will look for the brightest and the best, and the lowliest and most needy, and you will use all these experiences to enrich your being.
We are irrevocably tied to the present because that is where we live, but we can travel forward or backward in our minds, we can create great castles in the air, or fashion tight dungeons for our emotions. The trick to leaving a place is to suck it in, to hold it in your heart and soul and you will have it always. Then it is to open yourself to the new, be prepared to embrace and be embraced. There is another saying, about travelers - they have seen the Elephant. Once you have seen the elephant, it is said, you can never quite settle anywhere else, because you have a piece of the other places always in your heart and mind. So we are back to change is the only constant; hold the elephant in your heart and your mind and your soul and breathe in the new, absorb all it has to offer while you maintain awareness, always, that where you are is not the whole and it is not the all, and that one day you will move on again, either emotionally, or spiritually, or physically, but all that has gone before travels with you.
The jokes come thick and fast
Did he pay and display?
He must owe a king’s ransom
in unpaid parking charges.
Yet, underpinning the levity,
is a thread of awe seldom
offered to bones in our
modern day. It is awareness
of history uncovered, a path
through myth, rumour and
theatre to acknowledge that
this king, unearthed, was once
a living, breathing man. His bones
make our past seem real.
Small Stone 4.2.13
Pears are in season;
green on the turn to
yellow, and soft, bursting
sharp acid against teeth before
sweetness grazes the tongue.
The fruit’s rough granules settle
on the hills and valleys of the
molars, charting the territory,
while each bite produces
tiny dull crumps which echo
in the bones of the jaw.
Small Stone 3.2.13
The only constant is change. Someone said that, and I can’t remember who. I could google it, but let’s leave it as a universal constant, said by everyone at some time or another. Change has its pros and its cons, but there is one thing which can be done to shore up the heart and the stomach and the soul against its more ravaging effects. You can carry the unchangeables, the intangibles, within you. You can work on developing a faith which says that, wherever your physical self may be, your spiritual Self will find good things to nurture it, because you will seek those things out, you will look for the brightest and the best, and the lowliest and most needy, and you will use all these experiences to enrich your being.
We are irrevocably tied to the present because that is where we live, but we can travel forward or backward in our minds, we can create great castles in the air, or fashion tight dungeons for our emotions. The trick to leaving a place is to suck it in, to hold it in your heart and soul and you will have it always. Then it is to open yourself to the new, be prepared to embrace and be embraced. There is another saying, about travelers - they have seen the Elephant. Once you have seen the elephant, it is said, you can never quite settle anywhere else, because you have a piece of the other places always in your heart and mind. So we are back to change is the only constant; hold the elephant in your heart and your mind and your soul and breathe in the new, absorb all it has to offer while you maintain awareness, always, that where you are is not the whole and it is not the all, and that one day you will move on again, either emotionally, or spiritually, or physically, but all that has gone before travels with you.