getting it down on paper

Belinda Chlouber
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A knock on the back door 

or a tapping at the window at night 

that’s how poems come to me 

and I choose for myself 

if I wish to open up and let them in 

-- I always do 

james lee jobe 

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.

Pema Chödrön

Morning 

a cool summer breeze 

hot black coffee and cold sliced tomatoes 

cuban music playing softly 

I am conscious of what a joy it is to be alive 

I don’t believe in any gods 

and yet I want to thank someone 

so thank you

james lee jobe 

When your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you. 

Ajahn Chah

Things happen 

a birth here 

a death there 

a crop is planted in one season 

harvested and gleaned in the next 

here in the Sacramento Valley 

it is summer 

the growing season 

the crops thrive 

up in the Sierra Nevada 

our mountains to the east 

the snow melt fills the rivers 

rushing down to us in flat lands below 

things happen 

I try to get them down on paper 

before they are dead and gone

james lee jobe 

Wassily Kadinsky
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james