May all beings be happy and free May the tree of life be watered with loving kindness and wisdom Metta in Pratitjasamuthpada Loving Kindness and insight into the radical interdependence the interelatedness of all things the co-arising of all phenomena Blessed be the elements and the elementals Blessed be the water, the very soil and the Air the Fire that burns in us and in the Earth blessed be the Animal clans and the Plant families the very Bones of the Earth the fungal and

Yesterday, I saw a long earth-worm crossing over the dry dirt road that I was cycling along. He was three quarters over, half dead and fully covered in dust

People still tend to ask me at some point of conversation, which profession I originally learned. Say, what my basic education would look or sound like

Sideways hail on morning windows, storm-warning. The lights are on round the lake, blinking over stirred waters. Red Kestrel calling hauntingly