keep sweeping

clarkston, wa 08.22.25

writing on the road: journal

Sep 19 • 

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August 2025

winter light in delaware

terns, french fries, a solitary gull

Aug 8 • 

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July 2025

abandon intent to be present

For melissa 7.19.25: quotidian birds

Jul 25 • 

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Welcome to the American police state.

How do you stand against institutional cruelty and cynical lies? And: where is equanimity to be found in outrage and anger? How do you act?

Jul 5 • 

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June 2025

an occasional hawk

geometries of longing

Jun 28 • 

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We're in a war. Again.

Living, zen, politics, & taking responsibility for all of it.

Jun 22 • 

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how you occupy a darkening room

torn paper scattered to the wind: seeks shifting to establish sense

Jun 21 • 

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desire to permit wanting

meditation on bodies in motion: tire tracks in dirt roads

Jun 13 • 

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nomadic language expressing sand

still not bothering with logic in favor of more crows. more light. feeling my way through.

Jun 6 • 

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May 2025

he spoke stones

meditation on birds flying upwards

May 30 • 

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notes on crows and wind.

(late afternoon, November 2024)

May 23 • 

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Notes on breaking

Zazen is the platinum seam.

May 16 • 

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