Through love’s eyes awareness as a seeing through love’s eyes love’s eyes as a seeing through awareness seeing through love’s eyes attending, presence a soft focus, a gentle gaze simply so the suchness of all shimmering through love’s eyes a softening, the corners of the lips up, a smile through love’s being time-space folds into …
Varied Thrush The Varied Thrush lay, one wing open on the deck after a thud —his feathers clung to the window like tiny moths pressing into the afternoon light. I remember the moment when: with trembling trepidation I gathered his liquid light body in the palms of my hands on that cold, November day …
Red lentil dal with vegetables This is one my favorite cool weather comfort foods. This dal is warming, delicious and nutritious. Many years ago, Ron from The Green Door Restaurant in Ottawa taught me how to make dal. The key to a good dal is to make it so that none of the spices overpowers …
Yesterday’s salmon Just beneath the river’s shimmering skin, sleek, scarred in shallow waters they lunge upstream, up ladders, between rocks. A twist, a splash, an arc to drop dead still before another surge. An ode to salmon’s final journey. A pause, a gathering strength against gravity’s downward racing, tumbling current against time in …
Tree movement mediation This is a wonderful movement meditation for grounding your whole being when you are feeling disconnected or uprooted. You may do this meditation as a dance movement practice or as a sitting meditation. This meditation will help you feel held by the earth and more energized. Time: 10-30 minutes or longer if …
Italian Grilled-bread Salad This is a crispier, more colourful and greener variation on traditional Italian Bread Salad. It includes grilled leftover baguette, tomatoes, spring greens, cucumber, lots of basil, oregano, and parsley. It’s perfect for hot summer days when sun-ripe tomatoes and fresh basil are available. Like all my recipes, I encourage you to improvise …
Walk up into the forest keep right at the big bend. Walk gingerly past the brambles, gingerly alongside the culvert to the creek —fresh bear tracks in the mud. Come, listen to the rippling, bubbling creek. Its cool breath soothing your cheeks teasing away time and unease. Drop anxious thoughts into the murmuring skipping down …
To be human is to sense everything and to release everything —nothing belongs to us. Here, I am a guest cradled in the arms of this blue-green, spinning miracle. I am swirling the Milky Way through this body. I am skipping a river in and out of this heart place. I am breathing a …
Rosemary Polenta with baked eggplant and onions This is a simple, delicious dish that goes well with your choice of protein such as beans, scallops, chicken etc. If using the traditional large eggplant rather than the thin ones, a few hours before baking you will need to slice the eggplant and sprinkle with a little …
With fresh baby greens in the markets, your garden or store, spring is a wonderful time to expand on winter salads. This week’s lunch salad variation centres around cooked mixed beans and rice as a base, napa cabbage, cucumber, mixed baby arugula, mustard, mizuna, and spinach, then a little fennel, red beet, golden beet, purple …