Author: Brian

Sometimes, when you lose your way, you become disappointed in yourself. Your plans, even the ones forged in spiritual wildfires, have not revealed the desired way. The way you need to make you feel at home in it all. To be all you can be or, some say, what you were meant to be. Then,…

Aging is the experience of time moving through you. You cannot control, deny, or evade it. The experience of becoming old is the primal expression of time. The wild, feral forces of nature animate you. Your presence here is transient. A momentary participant inside the great flow of life that is your home. Your presence…

SometimesYou will find yourself in difficult situations,That linger, frustrate, and refuse to relent.As your anxiety intensifiesRumination, frustration, and exhaustionAre sure to follow,And gradually you become something less than yourselfUntil all that remainsIs an unwelcome stranger;An encounter with your shadow. SometimesWhen you are mired inside the stress of your circumstance,Faithful to the principleOf misery demanding company,The…

You hear about reconnecting with the world. You try to find your way back. But there is no way back to what was because it no longer exists. Let your grief be your advisor and teach you about the inevitability of loss. Refuse to inhabit sadness and begin move toward what cannot yet be seen….

This is a poem about rehabilitation, renewal, and recovery. It explores breathing as a spiritual endeavour to reconnect with Source.