Wanting, wanting more
Is suffering, great suffering
Until not wanting arises
Causing suffering, great suffering
There is only response
Responding to what is there
Not wanting, not not wanting
Merely fact responsibly responded to
Saturday, October 18, 2025
high coup invitation
Thank you, president
Trump, for bringing together
So many of us
We would like you to
Realize what a loving
Way of being is
You can change, you can
Shake off the cobwebs, take off
The dark mask, be free
no, none
pas de rois
sin reyes
keine Könige
nessun re
קיין קעניגן
لا ملك
Không có vua
Geen koning
न राजा
No kings!
can you hear us major tom
is very far away
I’ll probably not get to visit it
What with 2.5.million years
@300,000 miles per second
speed of light travel time.
Long time.
Earth is a small place
America is very small
And trump is a minuscule
Menace
So, yeah, pray for his
Fleet disappearance
He is a flickering image
On an already disappearing
Stretch of empty enormous
Space — an annoyance of
Arrogance nobody thinks
Is worth anything
As we slowly turn around
The sun
(M33) –@ 2,592,000 light
Years from us,
Cannot detect his smallness
Nor mine nor yours —
So many light years
From, this coffee cup
And his buffoonery
And Shohei Ohtani’s
Actually significant
Abilities in baseball
(The only real sphere
Worth our attention
This October —)
As for the paper mache
Pseudo-royalty currently
Pontificating from his
Guilted cage in Washington —
Long life to him, and may
He drift off into dark space
Away from us,
Soon
Gone
mieux que maintenant
Yes there’s
No reason to
Think all is
Lost
The presidency
Will return to
Something better
Than now
Friday, October 17, 2025
pardonne-moi, je ne sais pas ce que je fais
I do not want to
be shot in the head by ICE
while praying for them
douter, c'est tenir un rocher dans sa main
then, what happens to
innocence when we impose
doubting opinion
refashioning light
into dark judgment casting
shadow over mind
that newly opened
front door to wide fresh blue sky
all children run to
pas de rois, ni aujourd'hui, ni demain, ni hier
all our trails, Lord, soon
will be over -- no one can
tap-dance on hot coals
Thursday, October 16, 2025
salvage
Thank you Mr Trump for your attempting to serve as president.
It didn’t work very well.
All your ill-gotten wealth as president can legitimately be given away to the needy.
literary criticism
In most works of literature, including political thrillers, when someone approaches and exceeds the edge of propriety and rational tolerance, there is a denouement, a final resolution of the preceding and proceedings of the story.
Such will come for Trump and his padding sorry associates.
The fall will be grand, and the correction will be notable.
The foolish aggrandizement of 33% of a fragile structure of constitutional power and shared leadership will buckle and crash.
Let those who wish to and can rebuild now prepare the reconstruction of our country’s foundation.
horarium quotidian, inseparate, loving-kindly
It occurs
My whole life
Is one of
Exclaustration
Into larger
Less defined
Monastery of
Diurnal vastness
Tree, soil, cloud
An expanse, of
Horarium Liturgia
Terrestrial
Out from inner
Becoming the
Center inner of
The outer —
Now dwelling
The center inner
Of non-
circumferential
Outer;
The story goes
Jesus became sin
Without sinning
To end from within
Which could not be —
To exclaustrate grace
From inner ignorance
Out into exposed
Integrity
Where sin is no more
No less, but
subspecies aeternitatis
(From the perspective of
The eternal)
Now
And
Now
(The unveiling of grace)
With no obstruction,
No limitation, no fooling
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
a prescription
I must decrease;
Love must increase —
Come back in six months;
Keep (not me, but) love informed.
han perdido
It’s nice ro know somewhere in the world one leader sees things as they are.
Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”
Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
Who knows?
Maybe we’ll soon hear that phrase echoing about the currently domineering political militaristic people in charge of the country in the near future.
Thanks Papa Leo!
Worth praying for decency, compassion, and kindness to return.
buoy tender, auspicious
Sandokai Edelweiss
Final 2025 sail
Journey’s End
Passing Abbie Burgess
Abaft itself returning
... ... ...
(From Hermitage Update 2024)
Meetingbrook Healing Respite Sails
Since my own completion of chemo in 2017, I was able to fundraise for and purchase a beamy and stable 35’ Island Packet in Sept of 2019. With the help of volunteers and paying the cost of boat yard experts we have maintained this sailing vessel. I have successfully been able to take out passengers on sails for 5 years now, gratefully recognizing the benefit in providing these healing respite sails to those whose vulnerability and health are front and center.
The goal is to raise funds yearly to provide the maintenance and repairs needed for this sailboat, Sandokai Edelweiss, a 1989 35’ IP. This boat provides sailing opportunities for individuals so that healing, quiet reflection, and respite might take place.
People who have come aboard and are included in this invitation are:
-- people with cancer, their caregivers, support groups and families;
-- those in hospice, their caregivers and families;
-- nurses, cna's, volunteers -- those involved in caring service;
-- formerly incarcerated seeking healing, restoration and reentry into community;
-- collaborate with recovery groups and veterans to participate in a community of caring attention for healing fellowship;
-- in addition, those interested in contemplative sails and stretches of silence.
Meetingbrook Hermitage, boat and barn, is a place of conversation, meditation, quiet, hospitality, and service. I have taken people aboard my prior 26' sailboat for over 20 years to provide, without cost, times of peace and beauty. And now for 5 years have been able to expand this on a larger, sturdier and passenger comfortable vessel better suited for this mission.
Come visit for a sail.The boat is moored in Rockport Harbor, Midcoast Maine. As with all our events, every use of the boat would be free, open, and informal. You are welcome.
It would be lovely if you would join me in making a difference. I'm raising money to assist Meetingbrook Hermitage in this endeavor. Any donation would make an impact. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this practice and service that means so much to me and those benefitting. This will complement Meetingbrook’s ongoing volunteer conversations in both maximum and minimum security Maine prisons, as well as our soul-friend conversations with members of the greater community several times a week exploring spiritual and thoughtful topics.
We are a recognized Federal 501c3 non-profit charitable organization which is also recognized by the State of Maine. We are designated as a Schola Gratiae et Contemplatio (A School of Gratefulness and Contemplation), and a religious house of prayer (meditation).
All donations are tax-deductible.
Thank you very much for your support,
Saskia Huising and crew.
va dormir ma petite chérie
It’s getting late
It’s tomorrow already
No need to pray
God already is asleep
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
retro-awareness
It becomes
more and more
obvious
something taught
in Ancient Greece
ancient China
ancient Palestine
ancient India
ancient consciousness
It is this
and this is love
and this is what is
true
whole
at heart, good
where the future
creates
the present
Monday, October 13, 2025
dans les moments difficiles, qui nous guide?
Should we be afraid?
Do masked and armed and camouflaged folks pouncing on people, throwing them to ground, kneeling on them, dragging them away, disappearing them, pose a threat, eventually, to every person in the country?
Are we uncertain as to whether these current tactics should be opposed and interrupted as unbefitting and dangerous?
These “guardians” are closing in on our towns and streets.
Who will protect us from these guardians?
Can anybody be accused of anything, no matter how falsely, and be forced to spend a fortune defending themselves from malicious prosecution?
Who can we trust?
Can the majority in a so-called democracy do whatever they want to the minority?
These are difficult questions for a difficult time.
And here we are.
Living in a difficult time.
Whence guidance?
If God, who will awaken God?
today, a litany
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
Indigenous People’s Day.
Return of prisoners day in Middle East.
Columbus Day.
Good conversation in prison day.
Breeze through leaves remaining on trees day.
And, finally, may your celebrations and your wishes find healthy expression!
Amen, and
Thanks be to the God we long for, to the equanimity we so desire!
Sunday, October 12, 2025
think of it, this way
The god
I faith
Is
Vulnerable
Needs
To be
Saved
And loved
Like
Homeless
Mendicant
A worthiness
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