Stephen Levine

Stephen Levine past away in January and I am moved to honor him in someway. His book "Who Dies" was one of the most helpful books I have ever read. If you are ever at a loss as how to deal with grief or your own impending death, this is a great read. His wife Ondrea is the co-author. Although she has been in the limelight, I am sure she has played a huge role. Not only in the writing but also in his life. 

A Calf on Hollow Road

I know he is a new calf
too weak to walk alone
who only wants a teat
to suck
and
to be nurtured and loved,
but it's growing cold
and I've got places to go
and I'm afraid that
if I stay to love him,
he'll die anyway
and
I'll be left alone.

Dali doodles

Five quick doodles of Dali for my Y is yellow class. 

Contemplation

The combination of observation along with love--not with resistance, judgment, analysis, or labeling--just observation with love and reverence, is probably the best definition of contemplation.                      Richard Rhor

The Caregiver's Tao Te Ching

When we become more at ease with all the intensity that flows through our being, we find that we can remain present with what's happening. In this way we build proof that we can endure and even welcome all that life presents, one moment at a time.

                            "The Caregiver's Tao Te Ching by William and Nancy Martin.

To be happy

Words Escape Me

Words

Words escape me
because
the super moon
has swallowed
them
whole

Measuring the Invisible

I've had this comic in the making for years now. This idea that we can not measure our subjective experiences brought me to a spiritual awakening. I always believed that we lived in a material world that operated on principles of science. More recently I have come to believe that human life also operates on the invisible things that defy measurement.

Time

Time lapses with light,
which retires and
brings new days
it will not remember the dirty heat,
or the chains which some bear,
     for it is too in love with living
     to feel anything but divine strength,
so
drink it up because that
is the essence in which we travel,
in which we are traveled.

Words By Courtney Hanes and Art by Sandra Moreano

The Kiss

Your slime and moisture

will mix

in a 

science of ancient beauty

wrapped up in stars,

an Egyptian Milky Way

of crevasses and 

arms. 

Words by Courtney Hanes and Art by Sandra Moreano

As a Girl

As a girl

she picked daisies

happily lost in magical

landscapes of green 

streaked with birds 

and their worms

     but 

when she 

became a woman 

she moved to the city 

sprinkled with

skyscrapers and 

mocha dreams

and traded in 

her horse for 

an old 

model Porsche 

that

sped her away

     leaving behind 

more than 

dusty corridors 

and 

hay

Words by Courtney Hanes   Art by Sandra Moreano