Feeding livestock

Feeding livestock

ancient advice

for meal consumption..

tending livestock first

will bid well..

subdue their hunger

that part

of our soul..

food then satiates

tasted by senses

with flavor sublime

in pineal unity...

Soaring

Soaring

when 

ecstasy blooms and

landscape turns to

soaring flight..

these are times

our light within

experiences our

soaring...

Look again

Look again

diversity unnoticed

flattens our days

depresses our rising..

diversity noticed and

temporary emotions

fill our frame..

healthful formula

seems to be:

Unify diversity

and through Unity

look again...

Ninth Duino Elegy (Rilke)

Are we here, perhaps, for saying: house,

bridge, fountain, gate, jug, fruit-tree, window –

at most: column, tower......but for saying, realise,

oh, for a saying such as the things themselves would never

have profoundly said. 

Inception

Inception

of our poem..

intent is first

then a clearing

a sweeping for

quiet space..

now the paradox:

quiet is marked
made darker

finding room

for the verses

to come..

quiet returns

voiding yet joining.. 

female and male

twilight and dawn

and our poem

is conceived...

using Kabbalistic vision
of Creation on a new
level..

Memory (David Whyte)

MEMORY

is not just a then, recalled in a now, the past is never just the past, memory is a pulse passing through all created life, a waveform: a then continually becoming other thens, all the while creating a continual but almost untouchable now. But the guru’s urge to live only in the now misunderstands the multi layered inheritance of existence, where all epochs live and breathe in parallels… memory passes through an individual human life like a building musical waveform, constantly maturing, … often volatile, sometimes overpowering. Every human life holds the power of this immense inherited pulse: holds and then supercharges it, according to the way we inhabit our identities in the untouchable now. Memory is an invitation to the source of life, to a fuller participation in the now, to a future about to happen, but ultimately to a frontier identity that holds them all. Memory makes the now fully inhabitable.

Anniversary

Anniversary

this marking

in time

need be placed

in stark contrast to

 shared communion

of no beginning

no end..

yet this day
and other markings
 stimulate our
remembering..
 lighted candles
bring communion
to our moment...

Happy Anniversary
Don and Becky...!

Candle and Flame

Candle and Flame

Carved in mud

horseshoe tracks..

he asked me

then remembered

she was correct..

literal reality here

now verified..

One track though

symmetry double

only this one

with appearance

holder and candle..

consciousness is

energized by

 coherence

of difference..
nature reflects an

image of flame...

Robin breathes

Robin breathes

her SEEING

is breathing..

Inhale 

her view is

below:

confusion

dysfunction

yes, wounds

path shadows..

at last 

these SEEN and

gathered

for transform

Inhale..

Exhale 

her view is

above:

new colors

illumine..

PRACTICE

LOVING

and NATURE

all glow anew..

yet evening

approaches..

ego's new 

grasping..

Gathering

once more

her Poetry 

breathes free...

Third Annual Mary Oliver Festival

THIRD ANNUAL MARY OLIVER FESTIVAL

PILLAR Institute for Lifelong Learning

Hosted by: Robin Izer 

    Saturday, Sept. 14th, 2013

        9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

  202 E. Cheyenne Mtn. Blvd. , Suite 1,  80906

Because her latest book, A Thousand Mornings, is relatively short, we will complete a circle reading of the entire text; each of us taking sequential turns reading the 36 poems in this book.  We will then ruminate on the poems which call to our hearts & minds.   As always, you are invited to bring other works by Mary which have transformed you, which we will share as time allows.  Please bring a copy of A Thousand Mornings if you can; we will share books if needed.  Note: This is not a poetry writing workshop.  

 HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE !!!    

Please share this announcement with friends, if you please.....

 ($20 for Members; $25 for Non-Members.  Partial scholarships are available.

     633-4991 to Register, after August 20th...... Coffee, Tea & Refreshments will be served.)

The Beetle

The Beetle

Thus far 400,000

species discovered
a quantity dissonance
ghastly overwhelming..
40% of insect species
30% of all animals..
worthy representatives
of animal kingdom..?

Greek named

Coleoptera
not Cleopatra..!

"sheathed wing"
potential flight..

pheromones 
stimulate and gather..

Vibrations join
with all creation..

Similarities
these big four:
Adephaga
Archostemata
Myxophaga
Polyphaga
land and aquatic..
Air Fire Water Earth
complete with

surprise members:

Ladybugs

Fireflies

Lightening bugs
allusions to 
Fortune and Light....

Thanks to Ava
for this prompt..!

Meditation

Meditation

first the breath

birth to death
pulsation

rising and falling
pattern of

all our days..

inhale is rising

in spine's channel

darkness brightens to

fountain of light..

exhale forms

apple's red skin

 egg's white shell

exhale is creation

 colors luminous 

nature's fine detail..

 now constricting
enter once more
spine's entry door..
in the darkness
rough patches reside..
though from there
appears slowly a
pin of light..
inhale is rising
joy expands 
a fountain bursts..

first the breath
birth to death
pulsation
rising and falling
pattern of
all our days...

Big Bang

 Two Cosmic Microwave Background anomalies hinted at by the Planck observatory's predecessor, NASA's WMAP, are confirmed in new high-precision data revealed on March 21, 2013. In this image, the two anomalous regions have been enhanced with red and blue shading to make them more clearly visible.
Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration
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Editor's Note: In this weekly series, SPACE.com explores how technology drives space exploration and discovery.

While we may never know all the details of our universe's explosive birth, scientists have been able to piece together quite a bit by studying the ancient light that saturates the cosmos.

The universe burst into existence 13.8 billion years ago in a "Big Bang" that blew space up like a giant balloon. For nearly 400,000 years after that, the universe remained a seething-hot, opaque fog of plasma and energy.


- See more at: http://www.space.com/22052-big-bang-technology-universe-history.html?cmpid=529599#sthash.xinj47dp.dpuf

Forgetting

Forgetting

We live with

much forgetting..

morning in-sight

fades with the

grasping day..

hourly demands

split and cover..

yet is life

 enriched

when we find

re-membering

springing from

dark ground of

forgetting...

Sit Walk Write

Sit

Walk

Write

she uses this

formula

her silent retreats..

sitting seems upper

writing lower..

walking connects

feet to earth

spine to sky

finding movement..

hand and pen

in motion

word flow
reflecting...

considering

 Natalie Goldberg's

new book
The True Secret of Writing

ants

ants

on patio cement
in morning sun..
disordered travel
direction changes
Randomness
tedious show..


diversion to
airplane engine above
assumed destination
Ordered flight plan..
moment's possibility:
polar interchanges
orderly ants
random flight...?

Beauty's path

Beauty's path

not what

but how

the artist arrives

at the notes 

we see..

a whole lifetime

birth entry until

 last brushstroke..

struggle and elation

work in progress

until our moment..

path of mystery

the framed photo

the dance twirl

represents...

Timothy's Gift

Timothy's Gift

he writes from

 unhidden despair..

his words find

distress in some

those wishing 

a caring shelter

or raining joy..

is it possible

standing his place

finding within the

evening each owns..

a garden there

dark earthy soil..

no other place

restores morning

rays..

Timothy's Gift...

Background

Background

and foreground

context with content

both are powerful

each strengthens

and weakens

the other..

Beauty leaps are

relational

sameness and not

photos and more..

perspectives 

daybreak with

evening...

Elegance

Elegance

with a discovery

of symmetrical

elegance..

beauty in pattern

fresh from asymmetry..

Astonishment of simplicity

Why had discovery

not leaped before..?

then in elation

discoverer declares

proof is irrelevant

Elegance is

all sufficient

imperative Truth...

Self-organizing

Self-organizing

Before discarding

old contract writings

affecting lives yesterday..

spoke of interviewing

employment seekers..

structures prevail

levels of panels

participants gather

level to level..

formal networks 
not newspapers

issued the passports

as entry for all..
order Not chaos

top-down and

external this mind

 ordered pattern..

Today we hear

of airline tragedy

too little speed

landing made midst

smoke and fire..

passengers assembled
in informal hurry..

a self-organizing

masterpiece
order from chaos

lives saved in

miraculous seconds..
chaos gave birth
meeting our future
urgent self iterating
in spots of need...

The AA Secret

The AA Secret

AAA works too..

 ubiquitous battery

teaches much more

reaches far beyond

a trusted flash-light..

this small cylinder

plus on top

minus below

gold over black..

 opposite poles in

lasting conversation

each with the other..

In the conversation

Sage's parables reside..

remember the prodigal..

Buddy left early

took his pouch

a descent to AA's

darkened pit..

but gold above

finally grabbed his

scattered attention.. 

 return to AA's

gold we don't

need to mention..

Lessons profound
from our humble AA:
gold or black
are never alone
 cosmic conversation
neverending..
we name
many poles:
heaven and earth
light and shadow
creator and creation
good and not-so-good..
polarity in Oneness
 the Secret..
at last we
 Awaken...!

Wormholes and Dimensions (Stretch...)

Wormholes and Dimensions

Pillar's Stretch program for July 15th

(MacKenzie Place, 4:00 to 6: PM)

will explore the meaning of

higher dimensions in our lives.
We will utilize the Morgan Freeman
narrated series, "Through the Wormhole"
as background for discussion. 

Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence – What are we made of? What was there before the beginning? Are we really alone? Is there a creator? These questions have been pondered by the most exquisite minds of the human race.

 Through the Wormhole brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science – Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and more – to reveal the extraordinary truth of our Universe.

Facilitator:  Charlie Coon

Imagine that you're a science-fiction writer on a tight schedule. You'd like to play in the vast expanses of the universe, but you have too much scientific integrity to conjure up a warp drive or a DeLorean out of thin air. You're also concerned that your audience would get bored in the thousands of years that it would take for a spaceship to realistically travel the distances between stars. What you really need is a wormhole — a shortcut through time and space. Best of all, unlike most science-fiction tropes, wormholes might very well be real.

Seventy-five years ago today, Albert Einstein and his collaborator, Nathan Rosen, submitted a paper to the Physical Review with the goal of unifying gravity and electromagnetism. Although they failed to discover a theory of everything, they did something arguably more much important: By creating the first theoretical model of a wormhole, Einstein and Rosen allowed science-fiction writers — including Arthur C. Clarke, Madeleine L'Engle and the writers of "Babylon 5" and "Doctor Who" — to explore vast stretches of space and time in the blink of an eye.

Stretch…with discoveries in Consciousness

(July 15^th, 2013)

Wormholes

The name wormhole was coined by American theoretical physicist John A. Wheeler in 1957, based on an analogy of how a worm could chew a hole from one end of an apple through the center to the other end, thus creating a "shortcut" through the intervening space. 

The most common concept of a wormhole is an Einstein-Rosen bridge, first formalized by Albert Einstein and his colleague Nathan Rosen in 1935. In 1962, John A. Wheeler and Robert W. Fuller were able to prove that such a wormhole would collapse instantly upon formation, so not even light would make it through. (A similar proposal was later resurrected by Robert Hjellming in 1971, when he presented a model in which a black hole would draw matter in while being connected to a white hole in a distant location, which expels this same matter.)

In a 1988 paper, physicists Kip Thorne and Mike Morris proposed since that such a wormhole could be made stable by containing some form of negative matter or energy (sometimes called exotic matter). Other types of traversible wormholes have also been proposed as valid solutions to the general relativity field equations.

(Please email Charlie Coon if you wish to be on his

emailing list:  charlesrcoon@hotmail.com.)

Ecstasy

 Ecstasy 

frequency

frequency

our words

of frequency:

energy of life

power of battery

our earth's polarity

shifting pulsations

sound of music..

highest frequencies

find rest..

all as spectrum

of light..

Swallowtail

Swallowtail

a floating lightness

effortless Waving..

a particle transforming

black to yellow

then to thin air..

lighting on shrub

but not really..

energetic reminder

empty space

is not empty...

Walking

Walking

a motion

clarifying

Step by step

erasing complexities

and fears

elevating Simplicity

exposing hidden links

fractal nature assists..

returning home

walk seen whole

 gifted in-Sight...

The 4th..!

The 4th..!

Independence

celebrated..

some say outdated

in interconnected world..

yet world is fractal

these tissues joined:

similarity and difference..

Independence unfolds

identity and difference..

at other times

and especially today

similarity we praise

content are we

Similarity is

stimulated strengthened

enclosing our

4th identity...!

bicycling

bicycling

We learn once

and never 

again..

never not

restoring from

imbalance..

a Singularity:

left and right

earth and sky

round and straight

movement and still

machine and spirit

bi and cycle..

such Centering

might one day

en-lighten our

struggling 

world...

grains of sand

grains of sand

in William Blake's

hologram of fame..

each grain of sand

 in beaches we know

contains a universe..

and in each

those beaches again

with grains for us

to look once more

and find..

in the poet's frame

holo-science might

new Reality claim...?



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

Why bad things

Why bad things

to good people fall..

on this question

faith and trust

hang and fade....

heat and passion

bitter rejection

all gain entrance..

these separators

further separate..

our duality roars

with new strength..

then with fortune

a healing balm

ancient Oneness 

blooms and will

bloom again...