SLOW IT DOWN

...being like a stone

Apprenticeship to Love: The crooked path of marriage (April 22, 2026)

TODAY'S MEDITATION

What happened yesterday? A reminder to become slow, patient, open.

What was the reminder? A flu-like "thing" that visits me occasionally. No energy to hurry. A nudge that nothing needs doing. Everything is worth the time to sit with it. Being still with it.

So today is about being like a stone. Not cold and unfeeling.

But, like a stone my surface is so still, my sub-atomic vibrations so subtle that I am able and willing to notice and appreciate all of life as it flows around me, and through me.

TODAY'S INSPIRATIONS

🌀Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you. (Annie Dillard)
🌀There is a way through every block. (The 2nd Aquarian Sutra)
🌀I'm always impressed by you. (My beloved, my oracle)

HER THROAT, MY HEART, THIS SONG

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THIS GARDEN, LIVING AND DYING

Seeds germinate. Roots push into the muck. They draw sustenance from this muck, and push that up and into stalks and buds. Here, in this garden, my family blossoms. My love blossoms. My beloved blossoms. My life is shaped. And here, too, all of it withers, dies.

PRACTICE, TO BE THE MAN I AM

And, coming up for air, coming through practice, feeling held, I am so grateful for this practice!

TENDERLY, I HOLD IT ALL

Alders, kissed by a moment of April sun, and only for as long it takes me to do a short meditation, opening red buds into a green haze of fresh leaves high in the forest. I sit and see it all, and am on the edge of tears. My heart breaking for joy.