BELOW THE SURF choppy waves slapping blue surging chaos scares people unaware how disturbance teaches serenity put your face below the surf dunk your head open your eyes see and feel clarity underwater tranquility as far as soft seas stretch enter beneath the surface dive deeply into unconscious composure rest easy amid the storm find […]
WHEN THE JAGUAR ARRIVES kneeling at the edge of the world the woman offers a gift to the jaguar one day the black and gold beast will visit Isla Mujeres to stalk the “cliff of the dawn” high above a rippling cobalt sea when the jaguar arrives the woman wants her to feel at home […]
JUST SIT brown wooden Buddha sits in the Lotus Beach Hotel lobby gray black ink Buddha sits on my left upper arm revealing clear tattooed commitment to calm cut into bleeding skin when I began aikido practice many years ago brown wooden Buddha wrestles with nothing I’m still learning to breath pure stillness in the […]
WALKING WITH IXCHEL walking a windy path to the edge Ixchel closes her eyes to see if she might stumble undeterred by darkness our moon goddess never falters never misses a step balances on tip-toes to the jagged rim before falling from raw cliffs into a fruity cocktail-colored sea unlike staggering rum-soaked conquistadors walking the […]
TEACHERS dusk in an empty room shadows the past, present and future in Isla who once watched the sea I see through these very windows? mysterious strangers visiting our Lotus refuge feeling the Maya drum beat in the cool air seekers savoring comfort relishing the scene without fear who are these laughing spirits now sitting […]
