Dwelling - Loving a Forest

09/09/2024

Join us for an inspiring evening!

08/16/2022

Ahhh gentle breeze
greets leaves
and me
Forest kiss!

08/15/2022

I KNOW MY PLACE

Ambling
low branch appears.
Bow. Over and over.

photo: zach reiner

08/09/2022

“You must not be frightened
if a sadness
rises in front of you,
larger than any you have ever seen;
if an anxiety,
like light and cloud-shadows,
moves over your hands and over
everything you do.
You must realize that something is happening to you,
that life has not forgotten you,
that it holds you in its hand
and will not let you fall.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

[ Art • “Slivers of the Moon” by Stephanie Law ]

08/01/2022

https://exploringdwelling.com/nine-ways-to-dwell

A central, powerful way to Dwell is to follow the light.   We know the world by the sun’s rays reflecting off form, streaming into our heart and mind through our eyes. We are then united with that form’s being. More deeply, light animates life.  Spirit rides light’s currents, enters us, enl...

08/01/2022

I often refer to this poem, regarding how lumbered through life until I found my water, where I live into my fuller self (Rumi’s “light grain seed”). I had to die, stop nervously clinging to my ego’s wants, and let myself into true waters. This was not a pleasant process; my ego was quite resistant!

I'm carried further and further on when I write, or amble in a forest, or enter silence, or site with a friend sharing lives.. I’m astonished — way more than pleased — that the water cares about me, gaily receives me, joyfully flows under me. That I can settle into peace.

I still clumsy lumber through what is not done within myself. The ropes are my false understandings, that only I can unfurl. Dwelling, mindfully saying yes to all aspects of life — sorrow, joy, loneliness, harmony, turmoil, awkwardness, love — has let me down into my water.

-bill
🕯https://exploringdwelling.com/catalyst-for-dwelling/🕯

04/14/2022

🌲🌳Dwelling is sharing a series of poems inspired by the suffering of the Ukraine. 🕊

Read more of "Divine Beings":
https://exploringdwelling.com/divine-beings

Every soldier is divine
Essential, precious, love-filled.
Every soldier speaks
Killing
A bullet kills us all the same
A bomb obliterates us all the same
Imagine ending
As tiny fragments scattered

04/14/2022

Every soldier is divine
Essential, precious, love-filled.
Every soldier speaks
Killing
A bullet kills us all the same
A bomb obliterates us all the same
Imagine ending
As tiny fragments scattered

🌲🌳Dwelling is sharing a series of poems inspired by the suffering of the Ukraine. 🕊

Read more of "Divine Beings":
https://exploringdwelling.com/divine-beings

04/14/2022

🌲🌳Dwelling is sharing a series of poems inspired by the suffering of the Ukraine. 🕊

Read more of "Diving Beings":

Every leaf is divine
Essential, precious, love-filled
Every leaf speaks
Truth, wonder, light
Every leaf equal
Every leaf falls
Becomes food for its tree

04/13/2022

“This must be the mission of every[one] of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.” -Leonard Bernstein

🌲🌳Dwelling is sharing a series of poems inspired by the suffering of the Ukraine. 🕊

Read more of "Diving Beings":
https://exploringdwelling.com/divine-beings