Into the Flow

Technology requires our fingers to push keys on equipment like computers, cell phones and ATM machines. We're moving away from cursive writing even though we still have to  use our written signature on legal documents and credit card receipts.

Total keyboard input might work for everyone but writers. The keyboard does not stimulate creativity the way a pen gripped by fingers engages a flow of words.

When we write by hand it affects both the left and right brain. The physical process of writing connects with the creative aspect of moving the loops and lines. This involves us on a sensual level.  When writing with a fountain pen, the wetness of the ink drying on the page reflects a scent of its own. If you do not have a fountain pen, any pen that flows adds to your process better than a pencil.

Let the heart and breath encourage a rhythm as you write by hand.

What did you discover about your creativity when writing with a pen?  Did you feel the rhythm?

Dewdrop World

This dewdrop world

Is but a dewdrop world

. . . and yet?

                         - Isso

Rose secrets arise from the inside out.

                                                             

                
Shadows pose behind and beyond; shapes and curtains flow. 

A harmony of upside down and turn around in traces, then hearts unfurl.

What self-conversation stumbles among the shapes that reveal a secret core?

To peer, without haste and permit the eyes and nose to investigate. 

The hands and body bend to each shrine of nature.  

What musicality trails the leaves.  A taste of tart and surprise entreats.

. . . and yet?

Awake in the wild of impermanence, the temple

draws an adventurer.

What do I know of secrets I don't understand?

Like dew, a phantom or the flare of sunset gone.  With hope revisited.

and  yet . . . to awaken and arrive again at dawn.

Hum Along

 

What do you get when you cross a hummingbird with a bell?  

A humdinger.

What is a hummingbird’s favorite fictional character to laugh with?  

Humpty Dumpty. He cracks up with the yolk.

What did the hummingbird say when he had a sore wing? Ho Hum.

What is his fav people food?

Humburgers or Hummy bears?

Hum along and laugh today.