Category Archives: mindworks

Seeing the Music in the Makers #16

Posted on January 7, 2025 by randomyriad

If you find yourself lost in the woods, fuck it , build a house. “Well, I was lost, but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament !” Mitch Hedburg Find Your Place and Leave Space for Others … Continue reading →

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Of the Fall and Falling and the Fallen

Posted on November 20, 2024 by randomyriad

If we can travel with our eyes wide open in the searing wind and churning flood of human activity, we can at times glimpse hopeful and useful signs as they bubble up from the chaos, but only if we can … Continue reading →

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Attention + Focus + Time = Enchanted Awareness II

Posted on August 29, 2024 by randomyriad

A Close Examination of the Living Forrest Floor I took my time, looking down as I walked, looking for the salamander I had seen on my last walk here. No newt appeared, but as I continued to stop and examine … Continue reading →

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Attention + Focus + Time = Enchanted Awareness

Posted on August 27, 2024 by randomyriad

“Tree” It is foolishto let a young redwoodgrow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime,you will have to choose. That great calm being,this clutter of soup pots and books– Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.Softly, calmly, immensity … Continue reading →

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Meandering Without a Plan: Life Finds Me Wherever I go

Posted on July 28, 2024 by randomyriad

Keep Walking,  by Rumi, Translation by Coleman Barks Keep walking. Though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within. But don’t move the way fear makes you move. … Continue reading →

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