Once Upon a Time There Were Three Times
Young children and animals appear to live in the present with whole-hearted exuberance—as we adults wonder at their lack of regret for past actions...
Provisional Gestures of Intention
Sometimes words express more than we know. A few days ago, contemplating the status of a new novel I am working on, I realized...
Guess Not –by Ken McKeon
Spent most of yesterday trying to make up my mind, Effort was much harder than I thought, For the thought was part of the...
Pretending to Know the Soul of a Tree –by M in the Trees
The Elm, her trunk rammed by a tractor leveling roadside weeds leans close to Earth, and now, in beginning Spring, is fuller green than...
The Dance of Earth and Sky
A tree is an entity whose very purpose in life seems to include the task of conducting water from the darkness of the earth,...
Hello Kitty by Ken McKeon
Yesterday evening a relative shows up after dinner And tells her story, a deep story, a sad story, Her cat, her dear long-time companion,...
Departing the Familiar
Sitting in a railway carriage as it pulls out from Charing Cross station (or Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Montreal) we depart the city and...
An Eye for an Eye
An Eye for an Eye In the context of opportunities for a deeper life, Peter Ouspensky offered an interpretation of the famous Old...
A New World
A New World We can learn to open to a greater time in which we recognize that our aliveness right now is conferred...
“Why Not?” by Ken McKeon
Why Not? Bits of early morning traffic noise, bird chirps, one droning plane, Too sleepy to even think of saying Leave me alone,...